Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appeared to have carried at least 400 of the 508 contested seats in the Lok Sabha, India's lower house of Parliament, while winning more than 50% of the popular vote for the first time in history. Just two months after he was propelled into power by his mother's assassination at the hands of two Sikh bodyguards, and less than four years after he entered politics as Amethi's Member of Parliament, Gandhi had won decisive control of the world's largest democracy...
...decisive mandate reflected in part a longing in Gandhi's unsettled country for security and continuity. Constantly sounding the theme of national unity, the unassuming former Indian Airlines pilot faithfully hewed to the creed of democratic socialism propounded by his grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru and perpetuated by his mother. But while providing a sense of national stability, he offered the prospect of a modern new face for his country. "If it's a landslide," he said not long before the election, "we would have to interpret that as a mandate for change." Buoyed by his victory, the businesslike Gandhi is expected...
...Burr sounds like a combination of a choirmaster's son and a Harvard M.B.A., it is because he is both. His mother, who lives near Hartford, remembers him as "a very emotional boy with great faith." His older brother, an Air Force colonel, says their father's rule was: "There's nothing you cannot do, no task is impossible." Since boyhood, Burr has been interested in aviation; he became a Wall Street analyst of aviation stocks before he was 30, rescued and took over a nosediving airline, Texas International, before...
...manner and curious mind, was the biggest influence in his life, says Ueberroth. Perhaps because Victor's education ended in the eighth grade, he always had an encyclopedia near by and engaged his family in mind puzzles, a drill Peter used years later to brace his Olympic employees. His mother, Laura Larson, half Swedish and half Irish, had been ill almost from the time he was born. A Christian Scientist, like her husband, she died when Peter was four...
...helped clear up some of her husband's heavy debts. Six years later she had a son of her own, whom she seemed to favor. Some friends now believe this was the seed of Ueberroth's drive to achieve, the deep need to gain approval from his new mother. The family moved often, and young Pete had to adjust to a variety of schools and neighborhoods, from Iowa to Pennsylvania to Wisconsin and finally to Northern California, in the town of Burlingame. By then his father was home most of the time, ill from a heart attack...