Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most outrageous aspect of Ferraro's tax problems is that any citizen of this country should have to surrender more than 40% of her income to the Government. The only consolation in this case is that Ferraro is the sort of politician who has been increasing taxes and Government spending for years...
...described the Democratic platform as "antireligion," Mondale replied, "I have my faith, and it's my whole being. What makes America great is that our faith is between ourselves, our conscience and our God. We don't have to clear our faith by passing muster with some politician who happens to be running against us." On abortion, Mondale declared, "It's a question I've prayed about, and I cannot bring myself to support the amendment that seems to be the test. The use of the state in that matter is the wrong policy." At tunes...
...point victory over his opponent Joseph Walsh, the mayor of Warwick, R.I., but only after the two men had spent nearly $1 million each, most of which went to increasingly mean-spirited TV and radio ads. Solomon, who tagged himself "the independent Democrat," labeled his opponent the "machine" politician. Walsh last year wrested control of the state Democratic committee from the four-term incumbent Governor J. Joseph Garrahy, who later chose to retire...
...will switch jobs. Yitzhak Rabin, who was Labor Prime Minister from 1974 to 1977, will be Defense Minister during the entire 50-month term. Yitzhak Modai, until last week the Likud government's Energy Minister, will head the crucial Finance Ministry. Ariel Sharon, the Likud politician who was forced to resign from his job as Defense Minister in 1983, will be Minister of Industry and Trade...
UItimately, the campaign turned not on ideas but on images. An unusually private politician, Turner seemed nervous and creaky-voiced when delivering speeches or working crowds. He would sometimes stammer or gesture wildly, then laugh nervously to cover his embarrassment. His oral flubs became legion. "It's a great country where a man can come up, whatever his religion, whatever his sex," he told one group. His manual gaffes caused Turner even more trouble: he was shown on television patting Party President lona Campagnolo and another female Liberal on their posteriors, afterward explaining weakly that he was a "tactile...