Word: tanto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...local administrations; in their effort to win respectability, they have generally proved honest and efficient. Still, the party cannot hope to win 51% of the national vote unless some catastrophe strikes Italy, and the Communists claim they do not want that to happen. They have abandoned their old slogan, "Tanto peggio, tanto meglio" (The worse it is, the better it is for us), and often cooperate to help pass important bills (or at least refrain from sabotaging them). Deputy-Secretary Enrico Berlinguer, 48, Longo's designated successor, hopes to make the Communist Party the nucleus of a "new majority...