Word: populistic
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...improve the security environment in Sunni population centers. When their pleas for postponement were turned down, some like Yawer and Pachachi chose to participate, while others like the Islamic Party withdrew, although they didn't actively call for a boycott. The wild card in the pack is radical Shiite populist Moqtada al-Sadr, whose organization has mass support among urban Shiite youth in Baghdad. Sadr, who has twice tangled with U.S. forces in epic confrontations, has hedged his bets, with some of his known supporters joining the UIA list under Sistani's auspices, while other spokesmen for his movement have...
...will no doubt find him less malleable than before. That's because the new Cabinet will be beholden not to the U.S. but to an elected Iraqi parliament. And since this body will represent the popular will, it's a good bet it will pressure the new government into populist gestures, including calling for an early exit of U.S. troops. "Even if it has the same faces, the next government will be very different from the interim administration," says al-Mahdi, who is the Finance Minister in Allawi's interim government. "The most powerful body will not be the presidency...
...same orange that stirred revolution next door in Ukraine. That may have boosted his chances against ex-Prime Minister Adrian Nastase, the left-wing candidate. Crowds greeted his election with cries of "Down with communism!" Basescu, a former sea captain and mayor of Bucharest, is known for a populist style and for cleaning up the capital city. He vowed to maintain a high profile despite the limited powers of his office. "I will be a strong President," he told supporters in Bucharest. "I will turn Romania into a nation of winners." Because no party emerged from parliamentary elections last month...
After the 2000 election, Democrats wasted little time getting down to the business of recriminations. The party’s centrist wing, represented by the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), argued that Gore lost because his populist pandering had turned off white-collar suburban voters. Liberal Democrats took the opposite tack, charging that Gore lost because he failed to rouse the party base...
...it’s not surprising that the Cambridge City Council has passed a resolution attempting to get Harvard to pay a larger share of property taxes. As property taxes in the city continue to rise, politicians have attacked Harvard in a populist bid to calm residents. But while it is true that Harvard’s tax exempt status saves the University millions of dollars a year, Harvard should not feel obligated to repay a debt that it does...