Word: loyalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LoPresti has consistently opposed changes to the existing system, which allows Bulger to kill any bill he opposes, to appoint all committee chairmen, to hold all-night meetings in which dubious laws are passed, and to punish senators who are not loyal...
They have long been among the most loyal elements in the Democratic coalition, and Walter Mondale has been one of their most respected allies. Yet black voters, like many of their leaders, have become increasingly resistant to the prospect that their support might be taken for granted. That was a basic theme of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's crusade in the Democratic primaries; by attracting three out of four black votes cast, he became, for better or worse, the black community's presumptive political broker. For Mondale, coming to terms with Jackson and other black leaders...
...office only last year, when his Telugu Desam party won control of the state assembly by taking 199 of its 295 seats. But if a chief minister no longer commands a majority, he can be dismissed by the governor of the state. Andhra Pradesh's governor, who is loyal to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her ruling Congress (I) Party-the I is for Indira-ousted Rama Rao on the dubious grounds that too many Telugu Desam legislators had defected to other parties. When news of Rama Rao's dismissal spread, violent protests erupted across Andhra Pradesh. Before...
Rama Rao's purpose in going to New Delhi was to make a personal appeal for reinstatement to Indian President Zail Singh. Rama Rao was accompanied by 162 loyal members of the Andhra Pradesh assembly. Their intention was to demonstrate to Zail Singh that the chief minister would have won a vote of confidence if he had been given the chance to call one. The President, however, was noncommittal, promising only that there would be "early justice...
...move came soon after its owners, American Express and Warner Communications, made an initial public offering of 5.1 million shares of MTV stock. The video purveyor now hopes to make many of its new investors loyal viewers as well...