Word: populist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some ways, New York Governor Mario Cuomo is like Bumpers. Both are liberal, vaguely populist lawyers, but neither is doctrinaire. Both first achieved elective office in their 40s. Each has the enviable knack of persuading the press of his soulfulness and decency. Cuomo, 52, could add some passion and streetwise piquancy to a Mondale ticket. Like Ferraro, he is an Italian American from the New York City borough of Queens. Ideologically, he is close to Mondale, but some party strategists, arguing in favor of Cuomo, think Mondale should not worry about orthodox ticket balancing. If the Democrats...
Until now, students and young adults have been the most forceful backers of "the Leader" as he swept aside many traditional social values and replaced them with his own populist ideas. But some of Gaddafi's more recent "reforms," including obligatory military training, have produced considerable disenchantment. Many younger Libyans are also uneasy about the regime's internal repression and its penchant for forcing Gaddafi's austere life-style on everyone. The seriousness of the situation is heightened by the fact that Libya's petroleum-based economy is ailing as a result of the worldwide...
...things in this world stir Texans more than a brawl, whether between high school football teams, gamecocks, refinery workers or Democrats. Texas Democrats have more warring factions-from Big Oil to Boll Weevil to Prairie Populist-than just about any other political party west of Italy's Christian Democrats. Lone Star politicians relish their infighting so much that when State Representative Ben ("Jumbo") Atwell was asked a few years back if he was thinking of leaving the legislature, he responded, "What? And give up show...
...course, don't simply serve the narrow interests of their former clients but they nonetheless remain polished bureaucrats. And I think the American people are increasingly expressing their dissatisfaction with a government run by such people. I think there is evident in the primary elections right now a growing populist mood in the country, and I hope that one day fewer of these polished bureaucrats from corporate firms will fill government offices...
...indiscipline that had vexed other diplomatic efforts was intensified. Mrs. Kirkpatrick was describing the progress and the meaning of the talks, about which she knew little, in a variety of public forums. She was acting out of a deep loyalty to her own principles and very intelligent opinions. The populist instincts of the White House staff, quick to adjust appearances to shifts in public mood and opinion, were the real cause of the problem...