Word: zigzag
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unashamedly wooing Republicans and independents even before the first Democratic primary, Clinton is bettering his chances for ultimate success. For decades now, Democrats have had to run left to win their party's nomination and then right to contest the general election, an ideological zigzag that has alienated many voters. What Clinton seems to understand is that U.S. presidential politics is not two one-act plays but a single play with two acts. "Yeah," says Rich Bond, one of the President's top campaign advisers. "It looks like this guy may actually...
EGYPT. Part democrat, part autocrat, President Hosni Mubarak is steering a zigzag course. He has allowed opposition parties to flower, and tolerates perhaps the most feisty press in the Arab world. At the same time, he has invoked emergency arrest-and-detention laws to crack down on radical fundamentalists. Mubarak's party controls the national assembly; the opposition benches are dominated by members of the Muslim Brotherhood, who had to run under other parties since the Brotherhood is banned...