Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Galvan's lecture, "Reflections of an Intellectual and Politician," was received with great enthusiasm by a primarily Hispanic audience...
...would take money for campaign committees. There's not a single major politician of the period who didn't." Large cash contributions to campaign funds were legal in those preWatergate days. Donald Thomas, one of Johnson's former lawyers, concedes that the President kept in touch with his investments...
There is no longer any reason to treat the letter-writing doctors any less severely than a policeman implicated in organized crime or a politician tainted by corruption. The letter-writing doctors--along with their friend Hussain--should be expelled permanently from the medical and academic communities...
Most economists in San José agree that Carazo, after his inauguration in 1978, unwittingly made everything worse. A politician who craved to be liked, he failed to devalue the colón and establish strict import controls. He continued to subsidize the prices of gasoline, food and imported luxury items. When he could not borrow any more, he printed additional money to pay government employees and avoid unemployment...
...lead to the sorts of civil disorders and revolution that are plaguing the country's neighbors. Luckily for Carazo, he is a lameduck President whose term will expire in May 1982. With elections set for next February, the likely winner is Luis Alberto Monge Alvarez, 55, a portly politician known as a team player rather than a charismatic leader...