Word: democratic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, I came to Harvard Summer School a Republican and left a Democrat. I guess I'm a walking parody of President Bush's worst fears about the transforming power of Harvard's liberal boutique...
...buyers to count goodwill as capital in exchange for taking the failed thrift out of the Government's hands. But having no capital of their own at stake enabled some thrift owners to make risky and often fraudulent loans without sufficient cash to back them up. Said New York Democrat Charles Schumer: "The S & L industry has been playing a giant game of roulette, and they have been gambling with taxpayers' money. Without tough capital rules, we will be telling these high-flying speculators, 'O.K., go back to the casinos...
...Bush's 1988 campaign manager, Atwater specialized in character assassination: last summer Michael Dukakis was dogged by rumors that he had been treated for depression. In a similar incident in 1980, Atwater was managing the campaign of South Carolina Congressman Floyd Spence when a reporter asked Spence's Democratic opponent whether he had undergone psychiatric treatment. When the Democrat accused Atwater of planting the question, Atwater said he wouldn't respond to charges made by someone who had been "hooked up to jumper cables." Atwater's candidate...
...time Atwater and Gingrich apologized, the rumor had achieved its purpose. Foley was forced to deny it both on national television and before a party caucus. One Democrat at the meeting said that all around him eyes were averted when Foley, married 20 years and with the bearing and rectitude of a parish priest, had to assure his colleagues he was not a homosexual...
That did not satisfy some critics. In Congress the unlikely alliance of New York Representative Stephen Solarz, a highly liberal Democrat, and North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms, the curmudgeon of the Republican right, is pushing a bill that would compel the Administration, if the situation worsens, to stop all transfers of high-technology goods to China, suspend all investment and trade, recall Ambassador James Lilley and try to persuade international bodies such as the World Bank to cease making loans to China. Administration officials gloomily acknowledge that they may be driven to such steps if hard-line rulers in Beijing...