Word: getterism
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...part of the most diligent outside intelligence analysts. What is reputed about Jong Il -- known as the Dear Leader -- is itself a mass of contradictions: terrorist and warmonger, or would-be economic reformer and peacemaker? A pampered, pouting sorehead indifferent to responsibilities, or a relatively shrewd go-getter who has mastered much statecraft...
Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky was given 24 hours to leave Bulgaria after he called for President Zhelyu Zhelev's resignation. Zhirinovsky, whose far-right Liberal Democratic Party was the top vote getter in Russian parliamentary elections last month, was also denied a visa by Germany...
...League standards, this team is exceptional. By national standards, it ain't bad either--the Quakers are a weekly vote-getter in the polls but has yet to crack...
...crack-down-hard approach is usually a big vote getter. It helped mightily to elect Giuliani and Allen, and Washington State voters approved a "three strikes and you're out" law that mandates life imprisonment without parole for anyone convicted of a third violent felony. Yet would-be tough guys can lose too. John Derus based his campaign for mayor of Minneapolis entirely on a law-and-order appeal but was swamped by Sayles Belton, who pledged an increase in social services...
Henrietta Davis, 48, is a six-year veteran ofthe School Committee endorsed by the CCA. Thepreschool administrator garnered 3,860votes--about 800 more than she needs. She was alsothe top vote-getter last year...