Word: pols
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...harsh politician his 35-year congressional career proved him to be. He could probably have won the votes of more women by sticking to his call for "tolerance" in the G.O.P.'s abortion plank. He could have avoided the tax-cut scheme that colored him as just another pandering pol, even though he seemed genuinely to have been converted to supply-side theory by the time 15% became his battle cry in August. He could have built on his critical 1983 participation in the commission that saved Social Security by speaking forcefully about the difficult choices necessary to ensure that...
...after former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm announced that he would seek the Reform Party's nomination, Perot entered the race and proved that it really was about him. And by accepting $29 million in taxpayer money to fund his general-election campaign--just like any other pol--he undermined his credibility both as an outsider and as a deficit hawk...
...ridicule had any impact, the next pol faced with revelations of sophomore-year marijuana smoking might have responded with, "Sure, I did a little weed in college." But no. The next pol acknowledged that he had "experimented" with marijuana in college. Like the first pol, he said that he experimented very few times and that, in the full wisdom of adulthood, he regrets that he experimented at all. The next pol said the same thing. So did the pol after that...
...campaign was at sea. Five candidates, led by Communist Gennadi Zyuganov, were ahead of Yeltsin in some polls. The President was favored by only 6% of the electorate and was "trusted" as a competent leader by an even smaller proportion. "In the U.S.," says Dresner, "you'd advise a pol with those kinds of numbers to get another occupation...
...aristocratic accent, was teaching political science there, an interlude in a career that had included stints as an aide to Arkansas Senators John McClellan and J. William Fulbright. After a yearlong courtship, Jim and Susan were married in Little Rock in May 1976. Among the guests: a promising pol then running for Arkansas attorney general named Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary Rodham. McDougal had met Clinton on the Fulbright Senate campaign in 1968, and they quickly became friends...