Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saundra Graham, a 12-term state representative, lost the Democratic nomination for her seat to political newcomer Alvin E. Thompson in September primaries. After waging a vigorous write-in and sticker campaign to win back the seat, she lost again to Thompson in November's general election...
Graham, one of the City Council's strongest supporters of rent control and affordable housing since she was first elected in 1971, announced this summer that she would not seek another council term...
Calling apartheid "a social system whose policies are so antithetical to the principles of the people of Cambridge," the declaration defined that term as "a policy of racial exclusion and repression [that] is the official policy of the governments of the Republic of South Africa and Namibia...
...internal conflict? Not on this score, Darman insists. He has described himself as "a long-term idealist and a short-term realist." Now, in an introspective moment, he adds, "That's the most important short thing I've ever said about myself." Realism, of course, often serves as a respectable disguise for political expedience. Eight years ago this month, he was the first White House insider to warn his colleagues that Reaganomics was flawed. He and Stockman later considered sabotaging Reagan's 1981 tax-reduction bill. Concessions to assorted special interests, necessary to overcome the Democrats' competing proposal, were becoming...
...nominee in 1964. Yet just the sort of politicos he once disdained backed his campaign for the chairmanship, swayed by his promise to build a no-nonsense organization that could provide Democratic office seekers with workers, polltakers and money. Says Brown, 50, whose father Edmund was also a two-term Governor of California: "I understand politics. I've been around it since the day I was born...