Word: republican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...longer tolerate direct pollution anymore. Since then, they have changed their style--but not their substance. They have participated in a surreptitious media war, bypassed several federal laws, intensely lobbied Congress for loopholes and maliciously forced citizens to choose between humans and animals. The culmination was the 1994 Republican revolution when conservative leaders tried to repeal the Endangered Species Act, open national parks to logging and mining, and deregulate disposal of hazardous wastes...
...fact that she has never actually lived in New York, has no direct familiarity with its needs and has never even formulated an independent political agenda. New Yorkers really liked that vanity Fair photo spread and so polls show that Hillary has the best shot of defeating the likely Republican nominee, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani...
...change in the make-up of the Board of Regents would give minority applicants advocates in the U.C. system and provide a welcome balance to the virulent conservatives like Regent Ward Connerly who spearheaded the anti-affirmative action effort. Current regents have been appointed by 16 years of Republican governors preceding Davis--in fact, former Governor Pete Wilson pushed strongly for the anti-affirmative action vote...
...other contenders, Republican Philip Hyde, who lost to Capuano in this fall's Congressional election, and 21-year-old political neophyte Matthew Hoey, who attended Somerville High School but did not matriculate, entered the fray relatively late. Somerville pundits discount their chances for success at the ballot...
Anne L. Berry '01, president of theHarvard-Radcliffe Republican Club, saw thelong-term effects of impeachment as merely morerecycled fodder for late-night hosts...