Word: woo
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...vaunted ambition to establish a Saharan Islamic empire, Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi has searched hard for a suitable first partner. In the eleven years since coming to power, he has at various times tried to woo Egypt, the Sudan, Syria and Tunisia into joining him in a "federation," "union" or "merger," all without any tangible success...
...Anderson did take Massachusetts or Connecticut (the only two states where he has much of a chance), the Illinois representative could use his electoral booty to buy favor with one camp and thus end the feuding early. Both Carter and Reagan would certainly woo the Illinois congressman, as they would the electors them-selves, who, after all, are not forced by the Constitution to vote for the candidate they promised to support. (Many states have passed laws to rein in rebellious electors, but they do occasionally slip away.) a dramatic historic event which would result in change," says Edward...
...carefully defined powers of the presidency- at least on paper. The referendum was the first test of Chun's popularity since he took power last December, shortly after the assassination of President Park Chung Hee. Strongman Chun, a former general, and his U.S.-educated Prime Minister, Nam Duck Woo, worked hard to ensure a heavy voter turnout. Roving "enlightenment teams" explained details of the new constitution at more than 3,600 local meetings. The President would be limited to a single seven-year term, for example; any slide toward dictatorship would be checked by new powers granted...
...government spending alone is cloud-cuckoo emotionalism and bad economics. It wins elections but doesn't run countries. According to Mr. Frost, only Mrs. Thatcher's strong stands on such questions as immigration and law and order--the sort of tea-and-cake, go-for-the-heart issues that woo British working-class voters the way the Moral Majority courts U.S. workers--have kept her from slipping too much in British public-opinion polls...
Carter, in contrast, contends that the conservative evangelical vote is over-rated and is making no attempt to woo it. Explains his pollster, Pat Caddell: "Americans basically don't like mixing politics and religion, even if it's their own religion." Nonetheless, Caddell somewhat contradictorily concedes that the rise of a militantly political religious right "is an important movement, far more probably than it's purported to be." It worries some of the President's state leaders. Carter won Ohio in 1976 partly because of a heavy evangelical vote, but the rightists are now organizing. Says...