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This realization altered the rhetoric and to a degree the actions of the participants. The delegation from India, which had produced some of the more provocative observations about the sins and obligations of the rich nations, announced that it would sign the biodiversity agreement, helping stem the brewing revolt by the poor nations. Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee noted that a tacit understanding was developing between family planning advocates and the Catholic Church that would allow poor nations to take more aggressive steps on the vital question of population. Participants of all stripes emerged from meetings with smiles pasted...
...home state of California, and consequently clinched the Democratic nomination with 366 delegates to spare. Then why was this ordinarily almost cockeyed optimist forcing his victory smile as lamely as a first-time sushi eater? In crucial California, at least, the reason was a climactic revolt against politics as usual that rewarded not Clinton so much as outsider Ross Perot and, to a historic extent, a surging team of women candidates led by Democratic U.S. Senate nominees Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer...
...this ideological hostility that prompted the Populist and Progressive movements and the rise of George Wallace, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. But the sentiments that fuel the surge for Perot ("Take our country back") are perhaps best understood as a 20th century manifestation of Jacksonian Democracy, the anti-Establishment revolt that captured the country's imagination in the 1820s, the very first voter rejection of the Washington Beltway...
Spurring the revolt is a ruling made earlier this year by the Securities and Exchange Commission, historically sympathetic to management on such issues, that made it easier for shareholders to challenge companies on CEO compensation through the proxy system. Shareholders at 43 companies, including Chrysler, IBM and Eastman Kodak, have submitted proposals seeking to curb executive pay. Next year the number could double. Says Ralph Whitworth, president of the United Shareholders Association: "What we're witnessing is a full-scale rebellion against corporate greed run amuck...
...money and getting candidates elected. Other pro-abortion rights groups have launched a campaign to force a change in the party platform's antiabortion language. Their chance of success is slim because George Bush is sticking to his antiabortion stance to placate conservatives. That rigid stand could trigger a revolt by Republican women who are threatening to cross party lines to support candidates who favor the right to abortion. "All my adult life I have been a devoted Republican woman," says Harriett Wieder, a member of the board of supervisors in Orange County, Calif. "Now I'm a woman Republican...