Word: litmus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beginning, orthodox Democrats regularly and inaccurately derided the group as a collection of "Southern white boys" who too often failed the traditional litmus tests by voting "wrong" on issues like aid to the Nicaraguan contras and affirmative action. No one called them racists to their face, but an ugly, derisive undertone invariably accompanied the attacks. Two efforts eventually won respect for the D.L.C., which now has chapters in 27 states, 19 full-time staff members and a $2.5 million annual budget. The first, a scathing post-1988 election analysis, elaborated the nation's new political arithmetic. "By the old math...
...article accuses the committee of applying a political litmus test in making grants decisions...
...judicial appointments: "If you appoint people of stature, who have been around a long time, who have a track record...that will give us a lot more than the Supreme Court that has been very much tilted to the right, and following a litmus test...
Conservatives who agreed with his prenomination positions were dismayed when he systematically avoided committing himself to any opinions during the hearings. Then the Anita Hill issue intervened and gave everyone a quick litmus test they could use to determine his fitness to serve on the Court...
...within its first year, rent control, which has evolved into Cambridge's political litmus test, was repealed by a lame duck city council in a stormy public meeting. Days later, when the new council took office, the system was reenacted, and pro-rent control candidates managed to hold five of the council's nine seats throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Since 1989, six of the councillors have been prorent control...