Word: leftism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...supercentrist candidates Gore and Bradley (once considered the toasts of Beverly Hills, but if Beatty should run, perhaps just toast), the leading man whose most recent movie role was that of a Mad Hatter Senator, Jay Bulworth, threatened to inject color and charisma, and a dose of classic leftism, into a thus far pale political season. "The political system is so corrupted, we don't really need a third party. We need a second one," Beatty said, affirming his faith in Jack-and-Bobby liberalism and voicing a fear that America was becoming a big-money "plutocracy...
...Coors Co. isn't alone. The company's socially progressive policies are part of a larger trend. Call it corporate leftism: businesses are adopting policies considered wildly liberal in the political arena. Example: only 62 state and local governments have extended benefits to the unwed partners of employees. But more than 430 U.S. firms have done so. Three out of four FORTUNE 500 firms have diversity programs to help them attract minorities and keep them happy...
...movement's new focus on trade has also bedeviled it. Suddenly some on the environmental left are arguing against one of leftism's cherished convictions--that the U.S. has an obligation to accept large numbers of the people who want to settle here. That's because the same nationalist sentiment that distrusts the free movement of goods--the unrestricted flow, say, of shrimp caught in turtle-killing nets--also tends to distrust the free movement of labor: in other words, immigration...
Prolific coverage of national politics in the Reagan years was attended by muted leftism on the editorial page. According to Barrett, who is now a deputy editor at the Wall Street Journal, "There was a self-conscious effort to moderate the tone of our editorials...
...neither his legendary charm nor France?s lingering nostalgia for revolutionary leftism will give Carlos the Jackal much sympathy, says TIME's Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley: "Rather than representing any single cause, he was a roving terrorist who put his deadly skills up for hire...