Word: patriarchal
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...maybe not them. Kemp has the true believer's ability to sell. If he, rather than Dole, can be propelled to the forefront, maybe Clinton will expire instead. "But the No. 2s never get you much," Democratic patriarch Larry O'Brien once said, as he recalled the equally odd coupling of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson in 1960. "They can help some, as Lyndon did in Texas, and that's why you choose someone you can't stand. But in the end, it's the guy on top who carries you." Or doesn...
...Dole have been exhorting Americans to pull up their socks. (Rhetoric is free; programs cost money. Besides, who isn't for volunteerism?) Clinton has used a series of Executive actions regarding teen smoking, gun sales and truancy as a paternal prod--in effect, making the Federal Government the village patriarch who reminds members of the community of their obligations to one another. Last week Clinton introduced a schoolhouse-repair program, which is meant to spur local investment, not as a public-works effort but as a communitarian one. "It would help those who help themselves," Clinton declared. As for Dole...
...feared that Zyuganov could win if less than 60 percent of Russia's 106 million voters showed up at the polls. But Yeltsin was not without last minute support: Early Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin made a radio appeal to voters, as did Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II and economic reformer Yegor Gaidar -->