Word: reformer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years Americans have been telling pollsters that they support mandatory laws providing for clean land, air and water. In the past, the problem was that environmental reform was low on the list of national priorities, behind such topics as the economy and education...
...however, politicians across the country rant and rave about how the American people are as well off as ever before. The economy is booming, education is improving. This is the perfect time to enact environmental reform...
...lost on American voters and there are signs the momentum is shifting. In the 1998 elections, Republicans struggled to explain why they constantly voted against clean water and air. Senator Lauch Faircloth (R-N.C.) and former senator Alfonse D'Amato (D-N.Y.)--two staunch opponents of reform--failed miserably in trying to portray themselves as pro-environment, and were upset in electoral contests. My advice to politicians like Lauch and D'Amato: Give it up, guys. If D'Amato saw the endangered sea turtle...
...corporate giants have been waging on the environment and their defenders. Are the 1998 elections a sign that environmentalists are fighting back? Are the American people finally getting a say? Perhaps. But one thing is sure: With all the prosperity incumbents are talking about, the time for environmental reform has come. More and more politicians are finding out it's pretty stupid to be anti-Earth. --Vasant M. Kamath
...disastrous fate of her comically ill-conceived health care reform crusade sent her approval ratings into the gutter. Her much publicized role in the callous firings of the civil servants in the White House Travel Office didn't help. Halfway through President Clinton's first term, it seemed that Hillary might finally stop meddling where she didn't belong. She retreated from the spotlight, changed her haircut and wrote a book about children and villages. For a while, she was fairly benign...