Word: populistic
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...politician's instinct, combined with a businessman's sense of the market?in this case the voters to whom he had so successfully sold himself last Jan. 10?that would send him back out onto the hustings while the Constitutional Court deliberated. That populist approach had swept him to the biggest electoral majority in Thai parliamentary history. He would take his case directly to the people...
...announcement of Beijing's victory, the entire politburo stood before the nation for the live television broadcast of a "mass cultural gathering" that featured pirouetting schoolchildren singing ditties like New Beijing Love, New Olympic Dreams. Then President Jiang Zemin hitched a ride to Tiananmen Square for the most populist performance of his career. He appeared on the rostrum overlooking the crowd?near the same place Chairman Mao Zedong had reviewed a million Red Guards, the shock troops of the Cultural Revolution?and waved his arms like a conductor as the masses sang along with a revolutionary hymn that boomed from...
Everyone calls him Stelios. It's part of a strategy inspired by Richard Branson, founder of Virgin. The idea is to become a populist icon behind a brand that is expandable to any number of consumer businesses. Populism is good for business, though a little odd for the billionaire son of a Greek Cypriot shipping magnate who spends his weekends in Monaco. Stelios started in his dad's business of oil tankers but became famous with easyJet, a no-frills airline modeled on U.S. carrier Southwest Airlines. EasyJet now flies to 18 cities in Europe; its planes are more than...
...election to the upper house of parliament. His Liberal Democratic Party needs to retain a majority of seats for Koizumi to remain in office. But unlike his predecessors?Japan has had nine Prime Ministers in the past 10 years?Koizumi isn't trying to sway the electorate with populist rhetoric. And they love him for telling it like...
...Liberal Democratic leader Charles Kennedy to attack Blair from the left, advocating an income tax increase to pay for better services. The Tories' record in power undercuts their freedom to call Blair too cheap. Hague has thus been forced to play to his base, focusing on such right-wing populist issues as detaining all asylum seekers and, especially, keeping Britain out of Europe's single currency. Two-thirds of voters back him on that, but it ranks 11th on a list of issues they consider most important...