Word: populists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lawrence S. Di Cara '71, a Boston real estate lawyer and 1983 mayoral candidate, attributed Flynn's success to his "down to earth" personality and to the fact that his populist leanings contrast sharply with the policies of his predecessor, Kevin White...
CAMBRIDGE, the nuclear-free, rent-controlled city, furthered its tradition of populist government last week. It became the first city in the Northeast to have a functioning Civilian Review Board (CRB) authorized to evaluate police conduct...
...group of politicians and journalists, who will be spending the semester at Harvard, introduced themselves to an audience of about 150 at the Kennedy School. They stressed a populist philosophy of government--the idea that an individual can make a difference in the system--as they described their decisions to enter the political fray...
...object of Helms' ire was General Manuel Noriega, commander of Panama's defense force and the nation's strongman since 1983. Helms accused Noriega, a onetime intelligence chief and right-hand man of the late populist dictator Omar Torrijos, of being "head of the biggest drug-trafficking operation in the Western Hemisphere." Even Noriega's staunchest supporters in Washington suspected that Helms was on to something. Says one Reagan Administration official: "Noriega gets a cut of every kind of illicit business down there...
This faction of the party blindly follows a strict ideological line. It also contains a "populist" element that revels in bringing political hacks to the upper reaches of government. Time was when the Republican Party stood for integrity, even if it did not stand for a progressive or caring government, but now no longer...