Word: strong
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...council's nine seats. But the party hopes to capture a fifth in a race made particularly uncertain by the retirement of three long time incumbents. Two of these, David E. Sullivan and Saundra M. Graham, are CCA members, while the third, Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, is a strong CCA ally on rent control...
Proposition 1-2-3, a binding referendum put on the ballot by a coalition of realtors and homeowners, has drawn strong opposition from CCA members. The measure's chief provision would allow tenants in rent-controlled apartments to buy their units as condominiums after living there for two years. Such purchases are now prohibited...
Once again Princeton is strong at the top. Princeton's first three players are Diana Gardner, Lauren Fortgang and Martha Leggart. Gardner is ranked 87th in the Volvo/ITC poll and Fortgang is currently ranked 68th...
...Republican Party had a strong antiabortion plank in its 1988 platform, and George Bush has become a steadfast pro-lifer, though he got there by a meandering path. He was once quoted as opposing a constitutional amendment to declare that life begins at conception, and he once supported public funding for some abortions. On his first working day in the White House, however, the President addressed a group of pro-life marchers in Washington by telephone hookup, calling abortion "an American tragedy." Yet Republicans also know that their party's identification with the antiabortion cause could cost them votes...
...republic of the center" in which a consensus has emerged in favor of market economics combined with broad social services. "Left-right rhetoric today does not correspond to reality," he says. "France has buried its civil war." Three key changes explain why: the Fifth Republic finally established a strong, stabilizing presidency; the appeal of the Communist Party has withered; and the old antagonism between the Roman Catholic church and state has eased. "The left is in power precisely because it renounced its revolutionary culture," he says...