Word: litmus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biennial report card bases its tally on thevoting records of all Congressman. The study usedas its litmus test legislation on issues such asRobert Bork's Supreme Court nomination, the CivilRights Restoration Act, the immigrationlegalization program, pay equity, disabilityrights, programs for low-income children andfamilies, and minimum wage legislation...
...confusion is all the more curious because Dukakis has not been vague on a variety of litmus-test issues. In last week's San Francisco debate, he restated his opposition to capital punishment, boasted about the comprehensive medical-insurance program enacted in Massachusetts six weeks ago and agreed with Jesse Jackson that the U.S. should get tougher with South Africa's racist government. On most national-security questions, Dukakis sounds like the dove that...
...three-month trial came to be considered a litmus test of racial justice in New York. Since the June acquittal of Bernhard Goetz on all but a minor count for his subway attack on four black youths, many of New York's black leaders have been claiming that the city is not a place where blacks can expect equal justice. The atmosphere inside the Howard Beach courtroom mirrored the racial polarization that they say is afflicting the city. A largely black audience packed one side of the courtroom, with Jean Griffith, the victim's mother, at the center...
...willing to listen? No one is blessed with the intellectual and experiential range to handle all the demands of the presidency, so an important litmus test is the willingness to solicit and absorb good advice...
...Republicans' command of the medium was counterbalanced by the weakness of their message. The Democrats are ridiculed as the party of litmus- test politics, bowing to the pressures of peace activists, labor unions, minority groups and feminists. But last week's debate revealed the degree to which the Republicans are tugged by their own special interests: right-wing red hots. Front Runners Bush and Robert Dole found themselves pitted against a field of yapping underdogs, each catering to causes championed by conservative activists. Haig, du Pont, Jack Kemp and Pat Robertson all blasted Bush's ardent support for the proposed...