Word: populistic
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...proposal will be relayed to Larijani, who will be the point man in negotiations with the West. Ahmadinejad's warning on Sunday that "we will record the talks and we will publish them at the appropriate time, so our people will be informed about the details" seemed a populist warning against compromise to those negotiating on Iran's behalf - a sign of Iran's ongoing internal power struggle. But that doesn't mean Iran's position will necessarily be any more flexible; Larjani is a tough negotiator who, even without Ahmadinejad's pressure, will likely press for a deal that...
...that in coming weeks, the party will coalesce around several working-class issues, including raising the minimum wage and increasing student loans, which the leaders believe will appeal to voters concerned about values. Emanuel's candidates will sign on to a "Six in '06" list of issues with a populist theme. Dean, who says the party should appeal to Evangelicals, will echo those working-class appeals this fall with a push on values. And Pelosi has promised that bills along those lines will be the first the House would take up if Democrats won a majority...
...patience is rewarded. Webb has taken a spiritual journey over the past decade, launched by the research he did for Born Fighting, his nonfiction paean to his all-American ethnic group, the Scots Irish. "When I started studying Andrew Jackson, I realized that I was really a Jacksonian populist Democrat," Webb tells the crowd. "Jackson believed that you don't measure the health of a society at the apex but at the base. I believe that too, and that's why I'm a Democrat." There are other reasons. Webb opposed the war in Iraq, and he was increasingly uncomfortable...
...pressure for fear of losing in the next elections. Pauline Gastaldi Nice, France Thank you for your very friendly and optimistic cover reporting on the French government's efforts at reform in the face of citizen resistance. Unfortunately, we are very, very far from solving the problem of populist reaction against change. Bob Ledoux Le Cannet, France The Nile's Bounty Re "The waters of life" [May 1]: as a retired U.N. and World Bank consultant who has worked in Egypt and Ethiopia, I found your story on the increasing cooperation between Egypt and its southern neighbors extremely interesting...
...Republicans turned on Big Oil, an industry they normally treat like a good neighbor--or an ATM. In a particularly delicious bit of populist sophistry, the party led by two oil guys that is pro-business, antitax and antigovernment meddling was talking loudly about greedy petro-executives, IRS audits of oil-company tax returns and withdrawing $2 billion in industry-specific tax breaks over 10 years. That's about a month's worth of profits for ExxonMobil, which announced quarterly earnings of $8.4 billion. "Listen, we've got people like this that are working for a living, who are paying...