Word: democratic
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...When Bill Weld and I came into office in 1991, Massachusetts was in pretty rough shape," he said, pointing to high unemployment and a huge budget deficit. "I said then, 'It seems to me that we need to work with people already elected to office, Republican or Democrat....I think it's one of the reasons we were able to turn things around to quickly...
...When Bill Weld and I came into office in 1991, Massachusetts was in pretty rough shape," he said, pointing to high unemployment and a huge budget deficit. "I said then, 'It seems to me that we need to work with people already elected to office, Republican or Democrat.... I think it's one of the reasons we were able to turn things around to quickly...
...code unless you reform the way we finance our campaigns," McCain says. "And you're never going to get rid of pork-barrel spending and make government smaller until you remove the special interests that dominate our political process." Sources close to McCain say he and his co-sponsor, Democrat Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, will threaten to bring Senate business to a halt this month unless G.O.P. leaders bring up the bill for debate and a vote...
...character. The isolated region of Kosovo where he was born, Drenica, is known for its hardheaded individualists. Those same rural traditions--"a Drenica person opens his heart to no man," says a longtime friend--have given Thaci a secretive, lone-wolf personality ill suited to democratic politics. At dinner that reserve undercut his every attempt to sound Western and humanistic. When asked what his plans were for the Serbian civilian minority that remains in Kosovo, he assured us its inclusion was important to rebuilding the province. "We're not interested in building parallel, segregated elements," he said. But when pressed...
Efforts are under way to change that. Last week Texas Governor George W. Bush signed a law to exempt physicians from such antitrust regulations. Republican Congressman Tom Campbell of California and Democrat John Conyers of Michigan have introduced a bill that would do the same nationwide. The bill, vigorously endorsed by the A.M.A., has bipartisan congressional support, but last week officials from the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission testified that it could pump up premiums...