Word: politicians
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...political force in modern Lebanon, the Druze were organized and galvanized by the magnetic Kamal Jumblatt, who was once described as "both rebel and statesman, mystic and politician." Three years after he joined parliament in 1946, Jumblatt formed the Progressive Socialist Party, and in the years that followed, he gave his committed support to the cause of Arab nationalism. By 1975 Jumblatt had founded the Lebanese National Movement and established himself as pre-eminent warlord of the Lebanese left. In the course of his political career, he ruled four ministries and helped to topple two Presidents. He also strongly opposed...
...time, he drew less than 7 percent of the vote, probably because Anderson, once touted as the candidate with "new politics," a back-to-issues approach that voters really sought, became a sad, fading shadow scuttling behind Reagan and Carter. He came to be perceived as very much the politician concerned about his image, not the intellectual, upfront candidate the press and public had grown to know...
Supporters, unable to show significant cause, justify their stance by pleading that they are merely following the recent recommendations of the Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving. Yet no politician argues that Massachusetts should comply with some other recent proposals--such as the per se law, which would automatically penalize drunk drivers without a trial. Rather than attacking the problem of age again, legislators should focus on the real dangers of drunk driving itself--whether through more roadblocks, the per se laws, or better education on the dangers of drunk driving...
...years before the old generals could purge and remold the party. By 1978 they had brought back from disgrace Deng Xiaoping, the deftest politician among them. At the end of 1978, the reorganized Central Committee, under Deng, had repudiated the economics of the Cultural Revolution and ordered reforms. It took two more years to bring to trial and convict the Gang of Four; and in 1981 the Central Committee adopted the official confession of Communist error. It was another year before they elected, in 1982, a new Zhongyang and adopted a new constitution, the fourth since Liberation. So there...
...United States is experiencing a dramatic upswing of racism and intolerance, said the politician who is now a visiting professor of government and sociology at Mt. Holyoke college, calling America "not really a melting pot, but a salad bowl," She urged the audience of more than 350 to actively support racial and ethnic diversity...