Word: opportunistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that of Nancy Reagan and her husband to the publication last week of Donald Regan's For the Record. Like the woman in the story, the Reagans acted as if betrayed by someone whose loyalty they had depended on, as though they were the innocent victims of a dastardly opportunist...
...with capitalists (even, in the past, to adopt President Reagan's idea of enterprise zones). He is voraciously inclusive, and thinks no one should go away from a party without his or her piece of the cake. "Let's make a deal" is the constant offer of this hyperactive opportunist and optimist. His original civil rights project, Operation Breadbasket, began as a demand for higher black employment by corporations, but Jackson added "What can we do for you?" and established "covenants" endorsing firms for black consumers. On that basis he made further demands for blacks in managerial positions, in what...
...makes it clear that Democratic candidates who fare badly in the South cannot expect to win in November. And with the possible exception of Gephardt--a "pandering populist" whose flip-flops on a number of important issues and support for protectionist trade legislation reveals him as the cynical political opportunist he is--Gore is the only Democratic candidate capable of succeeding in the South Vice President George Bush or Sen. Robert Dole...
Everyone -- except some voters, it seems -- loves to loathe Dick Gephardt. Since Iowa, the press has castigated him for his politically inspired conversion from a nerdy Mr. Inside to an Establishment-baiting Joe Populist. His rivals have jeered him as an inconsistent opportunist pandering to whims of a variety of special-interest groups. Others have derided him as a chameleon who darkened his blond eyebrows (otherwise they disappeared on television) and made himself into a populist prophet who would lead America out of economic servitude. Gephardt just grins: such criticism tells him he must be on to something...
...states have done next to nothing to resolve the Palestinian refugee problem. At the Arab summit in Amman last month, the leaders paid little attention to the Arab-Israeli conflict and virtually ignored the presence of Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Last week Arafat, ever the opportunist, gathered P.L.O. leaders for a meeting at their headquarters in Tunis to discuss the possibility of declaring a Palestinian government-in-exile...