Word: litmus
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...general has become the nitroglycerin of the 1996 presidential contest. Virtually no one wants to jostle him out of fear that his popularity--and any slighting of his person--could prove explosive. Powell's admirers say his appeal revolves around leadership rather than litmus tests, and polls support that idea. A TIME/CNN survey, taken after Powell proclaimed his moderate-to-liberal social views, indicated that if Powell were to run as an independent, he would win 33% of the vote, against President Clinton's 30% and Senator Bob Dole...
According to Luke A. Sarsfield '95, a member of the HRA, the new club embraces "all brands of Republicanism" and differs from the HRC in that it does not exclude those who fall short of a conservative "ideological litmus test...
Another professor who spoke on condition ofanonymity, however, says some may see no reason touse such an age litmus test...
...majority status. But that would threaten the party's support among minorities and women and, worse, probably spark a challenge to the President in next year's election from Jesse Jackson, who talked cordially to Clinton about affirmative action last week but is still making the programs' protection his litmus test...
...position. Many who know him believe that Gramm is a libertarian conservative who wants the government off people's backs and out of their bedrooms. Therefore he is opposed to spending federal funds on abortion. But then it gets murky. Last month he said he would not use a litmus test for choosing Supreme Court Justices based on whether they would overturn Roe. He was quoted in the Boston Herald as saying, "One of the things we have to do is learn to live with the fact that there are differences of opinion on this issue." Gramm supported a human...