Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...widely expected, Segni announces formation of his own good- government party fresh from a referendum victory, his credibility might woo scandal-weary voters. However, it is unlikely he could put together an organization in time to benefit from the next elections, which could come as early as autumn. The populist Northern League led by Umberto Bossi has come on strong, but it must still extend its base of support beyond the northern provinces. Even if the referendum inspires new elections, Italians seem destined to endure yet another coalition, including, if no longer dominated by, the very parties responsible for their...
During this period, Clinton's religion found a dual expression, matching in some ways the tension in his personality between his populist leanings as an Elvis Presley-loving son of a small-town nurse and his intellectual elitism as a Rhodes scholar and full-time wonk. He developed an intense relationship with the Rev. W.O. Vaught of Immanuel Baptist, a biblical scholar known for his erudition, whose sermons were drawn directly from Scripture. Friends of both men say Clinton, who lost his father to a car accident before he was born, was drawn to him for his paternal and nonjudgmental...
Russians have always had a soft spot for Yeltsin, who faced down the tanks of the old regime in August 1991. Their enthusiasm began to fade only when he successfully elbowed his way into Mikhail Gorbachev's Kremlin office later that year. This week the besieged President is a populist hero again. The Moscow rumor mill churned out one pro-Yeltsin story after another -- and no one much cared if they were highly exaggerated or totally wrong. How turncoat Vice President Alexander Rutskoi pinched a copy of Yeltsin's unfinished decree on "special rule" and gave it to the opposition...
...reform that former communists have fought most bitterly and, so far, successfully. Yeltsin's other economic pledges were a mixture of capitalism -- making the privatization of state-run industry that has already occurred "irreversible" and offering long-overdue tax breaks to small and medium-size businesses -- and good old populist pork barrel, including public works programs to combat unemployment...
...proclaim character -- although anyone named Lance is bound to hope that that is not always true. Democrats used to have fun with "George Herbert Walker Bush." The full inventory of the pedigree, formally decanted, produced a piled-on, Connecticut preppie-Little Lord Fauntleroy effect that went nicely with the populist crack that Bush "was born on third base and thought he had hit a triple...