Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's largest party but only a junior member of the government coalition. Analysts in Italy were asking last week if the Christian Democrats would now challenge Socialist Craxi for the Prime Minister's post or if they would seek the presidency, held by Socialist Sandro Pertini, whose term ends next month...
After more than a decade of turbulence and decay, Philadelphia was basking in a revival under Mayor Wilson Goode. A year into his first term, Goode had persuaded his city's football team to remain in town, got the city council to go ahead with cable television, and worked wonders with both sides in what had threatened to become a drawn-out transit crisis. As a politician, he received national attention for supporting Walter Mondale over Jesse Jackson in the 1984 Democratic presidential race, and Mondale interviewed him as a prospective vice-presidential candidate. Goode was perceived as perhaps...
...Alexander Clark, a Goode ally, is worried. "The brother was Mr. Teflon," she said. "He's been scratched now. The question is, Has he been scratched all the way down to the base metal?" Chuck Stone, veteran black columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, thinks he has: "The short-term rallying round by blacks and the business community will disappear as Goode begins to make mistakes." But Goode does not sound concerned. "I've had a charmed life as mayor because I've learned the arts of compromise and negotiation," he told TIME last week. "I will run again. There...
From Bluestone's nickname sprang another term of endearment...
...Judge Charles R. Richey before the sentence was announced. "The last two years have been a living nightmare. I don't like myself as well as I used to." After hearing the punishment, Thayer's wife and daughter leaned over to embrace him. Thayer was to begin serving his term this week at a minimum security prison camp in Big Spring, Texas...