Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote for Mark Govoni will do more than give a step-up to another politician making his entree on the state political scene. Electing Govoni will be an important step towards recreating a legislature that does what it's supposed to do: legislate...
Most important, Reagan is able to convey a simple, powerful vision of America. Mondale cannot. He is a retail politician, familiar with the back room and able to appeal to interest groups by intimately understanding their issues and voicing their concerns. After two long and exhausting years campaigning for the presidency, Mondale still has not shaped an overarching theme or articulated an inspiring vision that could spark zeal among those who agree with him on specific issues. With only eight weeks left before the election, he must soon begin kindling some fires...
...vote for Mark Govoni will do more than give a step-up to another politician making his entree on the state political scene. Electing Govoni will be an important step towards recreating a legislature that does what it's supposed to do: legislate...
...four hours of fighting that followed, the largely Christian Fifth Brigade in the east traded fire with the mostly Muslim Sixth Brigade in the west. Five people were wounded. The event revived fears that the army is dangerously divided along religious lines. Said a prominent Sunni Muslim politician: "If the army cannot control Beirut, what hope is there that it can control the rest of the country...
...Europe, comes at the age of 26 to the Viennese court of Hapsburg Emperor Joseph II (played with a sly, thin smile and a delicious air of cagey indecisiveness by Jeffrey Jones). There the man of the moment is Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham): court composer, consummate technician and politician, Emperor's favorite, a musical lion of Vienna. Most important, he knows his place, as an educated servant among masters of the blood and the bureaucracy. Mozart, fatally, does...