Word: politician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronald Reagan proved that an actor could be a politician. So we decided that politicians can be actors," said William A. Strauss '69, co-founder of the troupe...
...Kennedy's opponents (State Rep. Tom Gallagher, who dropped out of the race in late June), I failed to understand why the electorate could have chosen style over substance. Besides Gallagher, with his passionate commitment and coherent socialist analysis, there was George Bachrach, as shrewd and capable a politician as can be found in Massachusetts, and Mel King, a stern but enormously popular activist of longstanding in Boston politics...
...brightest, his policy stands may not always be the most thought out or the best ones, but his connection with the average person on the street is powerful. In a time when so many choose not vote or even care about politics, a politician who can stir a crowd is nothing to be cynical about...
...address the nation's economic miseries. What they got was a three-day Belgrade talkathon that accomplished little -- and may in fact have worsened the political crisis. The biggest loser, at least for the moment, was Slobodan Milosevic, the demagogic Serbian party leader and Yugoslavia's most charismatic politician since Josip Broz Tito, who died in 1980. Afraid of Milosevic's success in exploiting nationalistic sentiment among Yugoslavia's 8 million Serbs, his enemies ganged up on him and won at least a temporary victory...
...problem is that the pool of people is a small pool," Allison said. "Last year I said that I was going to make at least one appointment of either a female or a minority to the faculty. We ended up hiring Shirley Williams." The former British politician was tenured this fall...