Word: populists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...extrajudicial killings. Bhutto had also been accused of backing police hit squads in attacks against the Mohajir Qami Movement, an Indian Muslim opposition group, in the southern port city of Karachi. Bhutto, whose political career was born out of violence when she inherited the leadership of her father's populist party after he was deposed and later executed by General Mohammed Zia-ul Haq in 1977, first won the prime minister's office in 1988. She was dismissed after only 20 months amid allegations of corruption and incompetence. The term that ended ignominiously in November began with her first...
...town and a little stagestruck, they sprawled fireworks and Warren Beatty over four days, a coronation paid for by the FORTUNE 500 and capped by 30-year-old White House aides standing in line to pose in their evening wear for Vanity Fair. When the Clintons' populist presumptions outpaced their skill at scheduling, they left out in the cold hundreds of well-wishers who had been promised a chance to shake the new President's hand. The snafu prompted Hillary Clinton to whisper to her husband on network television, "We just screwed all these people...
...Taking on the Kennedys (PBS) This documentary about the 1994 congressional race between young Patrick Kennedy and Kevin Vigilante, an accomplished physician, has all the populist wit of a Michael Moore piece without the contrivances. We learn that Vigilante didn't stand a chance against an opponent who wooed voters with the musk of Camelot...
...official title, chief of the presidential administration, suggests a high-level aide, but that understates his clout. Chubais, 41, has pushed out one rival, the populist general Alexander Lebed, and--for the time being at least--has outmaneuvered another, the uncharismatic but formidable Prime Minister, Victor Chernomyrdin. During the months of Yeltsin's illness, Chubais controlled access to the President so tightly that his enemies dubbed him "the Regent...
...edges, and over the edges, of racism and anti-Semitism infuriated liberals. (And they were not alone.) But it was Buchanan's protectionism and his attacks on greedy executives that really turned off the business wing of his party. For decades the G.O.P. flirted with the populist attack on elites, a venerable Democratic tactic that Richard Nixon borrowed for his own purposes. Now that Buchanan was giving that message a serious class-based edge, however, G.O.P. leaders flinched and ran. "The Republican Party can't do more than mouth populism," says G.O.P. strategist Kevin Phillips...