Word: spotlessness
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...plausible. If he is to succeed as President, Gorbachev will need a trusted ally to head the party; Shevardnadze has been a friend for 25 years. If the party is to survive, it will require a leader respected within and outside the ranks. Shevardnadze's political reputation is virtually spotless, and his non-Russian background -- he was born in the Georgian republic -- may help keep independence-minded party members from deserting. And who would take Shevardnadze's place? Experts are watching Yevgeni Primakov, 60, who has been an important player on Gorbachev's foreign policy team since...
...storybook Niagara Falls housewife, baking homemade bread, keeping a spotless kitchen and raising her family in the neighborhood known locally as Love Canal. But in 1978 Lois Gibbs' life took an abrupt turn. That was when she became convinced that the toxic goo seeping from an abandoned chemical- waste dump three blocks from her home was making her children -- and those of her neighbors -- sick. Stymied by stonewalling corporate and government bureaucrats, she summoned strengths and talents she did not know she had. Over a period of two years, Gibbs knocked on doors, passed out petitions, gave speeches, hounded public...
...Takeshita last April. The L.D.P. further alienated voters, especially women, by imposing a controversial 3% consumption tax. In agreeing to liberalize agricultural imports, the party angered farmers, long the chief pillar of its support. The final straw came just weeks after Uno was named Prime Minister, when his supposedly spotless reputation was soiled by revelations of a paid affair with a geisha. "Along the way," says Katsuhiko Shirakawa, an L.D.P. legislator, "we lost sight of what the public was demanding...
...come out of the John Tower mess. The six-term Wyoming Congressman and new Defense Secretary-designate is many of the things Tower was not: a gentlemanly lawmaker whose low-key style belies his tenacity; a conservative who wins plaudits from colleagues in both parties; a straight arrow whose spotless personal history includes a 25-year marriage to his high school sweetheart Lynne Cheney, 47, head of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cheney, 48, even passes the all-important Sam Nunn character test. The Georgia Democrat hailed him as "a man of honor and integrity...
William's entire political career has been characterized by risks; and yet one Labour member was moved to comment, "Acknowledging Mrs. Williams' extraordinary ability to walk spotless through the minefield of party politics requires neither graciousness nor chivalry. It is a simple fact...