Word: elected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just hours after the polls closed, political commentators began making predictions about President-elect Clinton's cabinet, pointing to a number of people associated with Harvard as possible candidates...
Ross Perot, who at this point seems unlikely to be elected, would have to wait until January to wrestle with a Congress in which he has few supporters. However, Perot seems most apt to adopt an isolationist stance, since the movement to elect him is largely based on populist values...
...Enfield, a volunteer from Mass Choice, urged people to scrutinize candidates in the state and national elections on the abortion issue--and elect the ones who say the government should not deny women the right to have an abortion...
After the Iran-Iraq war ended in 1988, President-elect Bush was faced, according to a State Department study, with deciding whether "to treat Iraq as a distasteful dictatorship to be shunned where possible, or to recognize Iraq's present and potential power in the region and accord it relatively high priority . . . ((with)) steady relations concentrating on trade." Bush eventually, and not without justification, chose the latter course. On Oct. 2, 1989, he signed National Security Directive 26, setting out the ways in which closer ties with Iraq were to be achieved, including "nonlethal forms of military assistance...
Sure, they mortgage the farm by supporting a bunch of whiny, inbred, philandering malcontents. But it's a small price to pay to preserve the integrity of their political system. The British get their jollies watching royal weddings and royal divorces while they elect colorless but thoughtful politicians like Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Lacking a similar means of letting off symbolic steam, we have to elect movie actors and flag-factory denizens...