Word: splintering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stressing his conviction that neither major party should be exclusively conservative or liberal, Romney warned: "Dogmatic ideological parties tend to splinter the political and social fabric of a nation." The real challenge for the G.O.P. "lies in the expansion of voter support in all parts of the country, urban or rural, North or South, colored or white. Without common dedication to this fundamental, our rehash of 1964 positions may become of interest only to the historians of defunct political institutions." Nevertheless, Romney complained, the Goldwater campaign "never effectively deviated from its Southern-rural-white orientation...
...ever had the two-thirds majority required by the constitution to overhaul the country's dilapidated political system. The grand coalition, of course, does. It will probably, for example, change West Germany's election system from proportional representation to direct balloting in order to stop the free-riding splinter parties from proliferating and to give the big parties a better chance to obtain clear majorities. The coalition will also have the opportunity to straighten out the country's complicated tax and budgetary problems and to push through some of the tough measures that are needed to regulate the German economy...
...best of times, unity is a problem for India's huge Congress Party. The party is a conglomerate of factions that range from wild splinter leftists to extremists of the right. Since Indira Gandhi came to power nine months ago, holding the party together has become a major task as one crisis, be it food, currency or industrial stagnation, has followed another...
...Senate, wealthy G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, a longtime (1949-60) former Governor of Michigan, has made his name, face and green bow tie familiar fixtures from Aetna to Zeeland. Despite the recognition gap, the Detroit News last week published a poll showing that Griffin has established a splinter-slim, 51% -to-48% lead over Williams...
...special target the international affairs department of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-whose militantly anti-Red policies were shaped by Jay Lovestone, 67, an almost-forgotten ideological dissident who in 1929 was purged as the national secretary of the U.S. Communist Party by Stalin, for a decade thereafter ran his own splinter faction, the Lovestonites, and in 1940 turned bitterly anti-Red. In Hall's romantic view, Old Comrade Lovestone's present operation is "an arm of the CIA involved in trying to get governments overthrown...