Word: populists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...planting trees in their backyards. And after more than a decade of debate, Congress finally overhauled the Clean Air Act this fall. But these encouraging steps hardly begin to attack the most ominous threats to the environment, such as deforestation and ! global warming. For the most part, the populist fervor for preservation has not generated effective government action at a national or international level. Both the people and their leaders seem totally bewildered about how to tackle global problems. Too often they mistakenly see a conflict between a healthy environment and healthy economies. As a result, the ecology movement...
...global environmental awakening has been a true populist movement, a broad-based eruption of concern noteworthy for the absence of charismatic leaders. Ordinary citizens have begun to see the connection between environmental issues and their own welfare. Now it is time for political leaders to translate public concern into effective global action. Eventually deeds must catch up with environmental rhetoric, or humanity will learn the hard way that a healthy planet is not a luxury but a necessity...
DICK GEPHARDT (5-4). House majority leader dusted off sheaf of populist poses from '88; qualifies as first major Democrat to urge gulf caution. He's looking for a well-funded starting position...
...spouses and offspring of alcoholics, and that these learned but unconscious behaviors shape their future relationships and lives. This insight is not foreign to traditional psychotherapy. But unlike traditionalists, believers in codependence -- and the Anonymous philosophy -- enlist a democratic and emotional revivalism to uncover an individual's secrets. This populist alternative rejects the relationship between the weak patient and the superior, distant doctor or therapist. "We're talking about a group of people like myself who bottomed out so badly that we didn't have the time to waste on things like penis envy, Oedipus complexes -- however you pronounce...
East Europeans are now worrying about jobs, rising prices, their very futures. Some are looking for scapegoats, turning on minorities and seeking retribution from former communists. Others are looking for solace in nationalism or embracing populist politicians who gloss over the level of pain that will accompany the transition to market economies. "These are difficult times everywhere," says Chris Mattheisen of K.M. Associates, an independent consultancy group in Budapest. "People are freer but a lot more insecure...