Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democrats and Republicans alike are in full retreat from ired elders who awakened belatedly to the fact that they are going to have to pay hefty premiums if catastrophic-illness coverage remains a part of Medicare. Congress and the White House will probably agree to cut back on some benefits, such as payment for prescription drugs, to lower premiums that could amount to $1,600 a year for a couple...
When Delaware Senator Joe Biden delivered the Democratic response to Bush's "War on Drugs" speech, only one network carried it live. What stuck in the public's mind -- and Ron Brown's craw -- was the image of New York Congressman Charles Rangel facing the cameras after a White House conference and urging a tax hike to wage the war. Moaned Brown: "You can hear America sigh, 'The tax-and-spend Democrats...
Expectably, the White House is delighted with Democratic frustrations. Political operatives believe Bush has stolen the opposition's best issues: the environment, education, child care, the minimum wage (where Bush's veto of a Democratic bill will force a compromise to the President's liking). "We have co-opted them in areas that have traditionally been their strength. They don't know what to do," gloats a senior Administration official...
...have a point. With the President barely settled into the White House, a few Democrats are already conceding his re-election in 1992 and training their sights on 1996, when Bush will be gone and the G.O.P. nominee could be Vice President Dan Quayle. The Democrats should be so lucky...
...citizens of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania love to watch grainy black- and-white documentary films of what it was like 50 years ago, before their lands were seized by Stalin, invaded by Hitler, then colonized by the Kremlin. They remember themselves as having been self-reliant yet outward looking. These are among the virtues that Gorbachev is now preaching for the Soviet Union as a whole. He is a Westernizer, in the tradition of an enlightened but ultimately frustrated school of 19th century Russian reformers. The Baltics are already the most Westernized of the 15 Soviet republics, and they...