Word: specter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Legislators are haunted by the specter of defeated colleagues, even those from another era. Jimmy Carter was still President when House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Al Ullman lost a re-election bid in 1980, in part because of his advocacy of a value-added tax. But nearly a decade later, a Congressman cannot even discuss the possibility of that kind of tax increase without being warned, "Remember what happened to Ullman." Last year, despite the 99% re- election rate, two powerful House Democrats were rejected by the voters. Such dramatic defeats are frightening to legislators, argues G.O.P. Congressman Newt...
...Christian Embassy, Here's Life: Washington, and Community Bible Studies, which oversees 150 such groups nationwide. There are gatherings in the Capitol, State Department, Pentagon and White House, as well as special prayer meetings for lawyers, real estate agents, businessmen and journalists. One Jewish Senator, Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter, leads a Bible study group...
...National Committee vote on Feb. 10, more will be at stake than replacing Paul Kirk as their top technician. Ironically, Brown could end up rivaling Jesse Jackson as America's pre-eminent black leader and thus steal some thunder from the man whose campaign he helped manage and whose specter has hovered over this contest. Brown would also become, for better or worse, a symbol of his party: either an embodiment of the commitment to fairness and equality that has been at the heart of the Democrats' creed or, from another viewpoint, the final snub to those white voters...
...same cannot be said of intravenous drug abusers, who are generally oblivious to educational campaigns about the risk of sharing needles. "Either the message is not getting to them," says Moss, "or it's not getting to them in a way they can understand." Despite the specter of AIDS, the number of addicts is still rising. At drug treatment centers run by New York City's Beth Israel Medical Center, 13% of the patients currently seeking treatment had begun shooting heroin in the past two years. "Given the information that's out there, that's pathetic," says Dr. Stanley Yancovitz...
Gorbachev's refrain of glasnost and perestroika also raises the specter of another Russian word, peredyshka, the old Leninist notion of seeking a "breathing space" by making temporary accommodations so that the revolution can eventually roar forward with renewed zeal...