Word: mainstream
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...mainstream as the subject matter may sound, the school has chosen to emphasize these areas in a non-traditional manner...
...husband who had been disqualified in an earlier ballot. The NF already rules three other cities in southern France: Toulon, Orange and Marignane, another Marseilles suburb. Record unemployment and a large North-African immigrant population made all cities susceptible to the NF's anti-foreigner campaign. While mainstream politicians tried to downplay the most recent victory of Jean-Marie Le Pen as an aberration, TIME's Bruce Crumley calls the development worrying: "This concentration of power in the south provides the party with the base to launch a major offensive in the run up to next year's national elections...
Even his critics do not deny that Wellstone is a man of principle. And as he discusses his agenda, you can't help notice that Wellstone is talking with an uncalculated frankness that is absent from mainstream political debate. He stresses the fact that the answers to our problems will not come easily and concedes that most of them are not even known. He speaks of his political enemies with respect. He refuses an invitation to blast the media. He goes out of his way to point to the limits of his own analysis...
...addition, Wellstone is more concerned about portraying his ideas as mainstream than he is to argue for their acceptance. And this is the most suspicious part of his presentation--at least to the Harvard audience. Because when it comes time for the question-and-answer period, the queries are not about the merits of his case: no one asks how he could support cutting defense programs. No one goes anywhere near disputing his view that the federal government has a crucial role to play in helping people out of poverty...
...million people are earning less than Russia's minimum wage. The transformation of Russia's bloated conscript army into a much smaller, more efficient and better-armed fighting machine has not begun. In foreign policy, Yeltsin's more liberal aides had hoped to move Russia further into the mainstream of international relations. Instead, Moscow is bogged down in an ill-tempered exchange with the West over NATO's expansion plans. Western diplomats say the President's absence injects uncertainty into their negotiations with Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov. And Primakov himself has been the target of sniping--said by some...