Word: litmus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview with TIME aboard his charter plane flying from Pittsburgh to Madison, Wis., during which he came close to falling asleep from exhaustion, Jackson insisted that he had just two "litmus-test" demands for Mondale or Hart to meet hi return for his support. They are a "peace" plank and a solid commitment to end the runoff-primary system that, in his view, blocks the election of many more black candidates to federal and state office. Neither demand, however, would be easy for the eventual Democratic nominee to meet. "Peace" in Jackson's terms includes his demand...
...Atlanta, New Orleans and Washington. In some ways Chicago is a special case: two-thirds of its neighborhoods are 95% white or 95% black. And because there is otherwise so little to choose between the two lackluster candidates, the outcome will surely be read, right or wrong, as a litmus test on color...
...James Watt to get a conservative reading. Watt was enthusiastic about Ruckelshaus and said that in private conversations he had found him sympathetic to the Administration's environmental policy and minimalist approach to regulation. Later that day Watt telephoned Ruckelshaus to administer what an aide termed a "philosophical litmus test." Said the aide: "He passed...
...deviation from orthodoxy, have lumped Hart together with other "high-tech" Democrats under cute labels like "neo-liberals." "Atari Democrats," and "technopols," and have suggested that Hart is "not a real liberal." This is inaccurate and unfair. Hart has continually emphasized his support for traditional liberal ideals. "The litmus test for a democratic society," he contends in his recent book, A New Democracy, "is equality--both equality of rights and equality of opportunity...
...addition, our failure to act on the treaty was forcing some of our best friends and allies among the other American nations to take sides between us and Panama, and they were not supporting us. This issue had become a litmus test, indicating how the U.S., as a superpower, would treat a small and relatively defenseless nation that had always been a close partner and supporter...