Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...professors said that they felt the issue of race was of central importance in the incident and should not be avoided as they said they see many trying...
Putin studiously avoids defining Yeltsin's legacy but hints broadly in his public appearances that central power under Yeltsin was feeble. Some regional leaders, he claims, "forgot that there was a President." Until he became Prime Minister, Chechnya was handled with "amateurism," he says, and left to fester to the point that it became a deadly danger...
Still, they weren't offering any apologies over their most recent move. Rabbi Paul Menitoff, the executive vice president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the umbrella group of Reform Judaism, used strong language in describing why his organization had made its decision. "Can you imagine the impact on [gays] after so many negative messages from all those religious groups?" he told the Washington Post. Some saw the remark as directed at Catholics - gay rights groups have criticized the pope in recent weeks for his failure to include gays in his mass apology for the church's past sins...
...parties. "The views of the donor will have absolutely no influence on the views of the recipient," said Gore Monday of the proposal, which would combine the less-than-$1,000 from private citizens and the big, "soft money" donations of corporations, political action committees and unions into a central slush fund called the Democracy Endowment. The plan, which the vice president also hopes will free candidates from the time-consuming task of fund-raising, is reportedly giving special interest groups and lobbyists - faced with the possibility of losing their influence in Washington - a serious case of the willies...
Gore might have expected that sort of opposition, but he may well find he's pushing a bill of goods that's universally unsalable. First, there is the question of what incentive there would be to contribute to a central campaign coffer, because of both bipartisanship - "I don't want my hard-earned greenbacks going to those darned Democrats/rotten Republicans" - and the perception that access to candidates would be diminished. In addition, it's doubtful that he can even count on support from fellow Democrats. "There's general agreement that the only reason Democrats vote for these campaign finance overhaul...