Word: leaderly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decisions of Alan Greenspan. Finally, the most justified concern: some are afraid that the president's conviction would strengthen the hold of conservative Republicans over Congress. But the Democrats would be in a stronger position to keep the right wing in check if we had an honest leader in the Oval Office...
...lately been acting as the organization's conscience, alleged last month that five to eight of his colleagues had solicited bribes from potential host cities. Hodler then accused the previous winning cities of Atlanta, Nagano and Sydney of corruption--a charge officials in all three cities deny. (A leader of Anchorage's bid effort revealed to the Denver Post that in 1992 and 1994 his committee had refused I.O.C. operatives seeking $30,000 in return for votes...
Imagine a Chinese leader being arrested for past human-rights violations while shopping in London. Let's cut out meddling in another nation's sovereignty. Besides, I want peace at home--I am British and have a Chilean wife! DAVID ALCOCK Johannesburg
DIED. CATHAL GOULDING, 75, I.R.A. leader; in Dublin, Ireland. Goulding helped revive the I.R.A. in 1945, and while serving as its chief of staff, he attempted to move the group away from military confrontation. In 1972 he called a cease-fire, creating a split between his Official I.R.A. branch and the Provisional I.R.A., which sought continued armed strife...
...Vajpayee issued a call for a national debate over religious conversion. ?India?s constitution guarantees the right to propagate one?s religion,? says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. ?The reason Vajpayee is raising the conversion issue is to put the opposition Congress party on the defensive, because its leader, Sonia Gandhi, is an Italian-born Catholic...