Word: electioneered
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
At the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, hopes that the church would abandon celibacy were dashed by the election of the conservative Paul VI. A severe shortage of priests may prompt the church to reconsider. Since Vatican II, seminary enrollment has dropped 75%. Cutié, suspended from clerical duties...
DIED Two days after losing a bid for re-election as mayor of Jackson, Miss.--and four days before the start of his third trial for demolishing a suspected drug den without a warrant--Frank Melton, 60, succumbed to heart failure. A polarizing figure, Melton was known for patrolling Jackson...
As presented, the Obama budget formula is a work of art, if the goal is to slyly practice the very sort of dissembling politics that Obama ran against. The middle class is promised both a trillion-dollar avalanche of appealing new spending and, in the President's words, a "tax...
As of May 23, 2009, it's been 100 days since Zimbabwe passed from crisis into the hands of the strange and strained partnership of President Robert Mugabe, who has ruled the nation autocratically since 1987, and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, who defeated Mugabe in a controversial election last year...
Iran's latest missile test may have less to do with advancing its military capability than with getting a last word in on Monday's conversation between President Barack Obama and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After all, the weapon whose test-firing was announced Wednesday by President Mahmoud...