Word: politico
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ZIPRA army at headquarters in Zambia and helped by the Soviets. The rebels agreed on only the most basic goal: the replacement of Prime Minister Ian Smith's white-dominated regime by an independent black state. The leaders are stylistic opposites: Nkomo, 64, plays the outgoing but wily politico, while Mugabe, 58, is an austere, scholarly man. In Zimbabwe's first elections in 1980, Mugabe trounced Nkomo, but nonetheless initially named his opponent Minister of Home Affairs. The honeymoon ended last February when Mugabe charged Nkomo with plotting to overthrow his government and sacked...
Perhaps because of the talent for self-assertion that being involved in campus politics requires, the term "politico" has acquired a negative connotation among the non-bushy-tailed on campus, as in: "The Undergraduate Council is just a sandbox on the politicos' playground." But this is unfair. By and large, student politicos are sincere. Most of them have a well-considered vision of how to make this country better, and most of them quite unselfishly want to see their vision become public policy. Of course, the very ambitious among the politicos do want to turn those summer jobs in Washington...
...precisely this cynicism that began to grip Stockman who, as a former peace activist at Michigan State and a John Anderson speech writer at Harvard graduate school, had very much taken the campus-politico route--when the bitter truth about Reaganomics became clear. This cynicism, and a powerful sense of betrayal--reflected in the language of treachery ("The Trojan Horse," "opportunism," "Piranhas") with which he described the Reagan initiative to Greider--ultimately made him frustrated enough to spill his guts to Grieder in their Weekly breakfast meetings...
...insightful budding politico will make the best of this unpleasant situation by using insights from his hobby to enhance his work. A few candidates from the soon-to-be-concluded campaign set examples for different academic approaches...
Robert Dean, deputy director of the State Department's Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, said the freeze would make "significant army control more difficult" because the United States would have no bargaining chips...