Word: democratically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...virtual mob by Big Sky standards -- gathered at a downtown hotel to hear a Washington economist explain that the tax would cost every Montana family $500 a year and deprive the state of 1,500 jobs. After urging citizens to telephone their disapproval to Montana's Max Baucus, a Democrat on the pivotal Senate Finance Committee, the economist invited his audience to help themselves to turkey, ham, cheese, salads, cake, apple...
...maybe it was one of those Jurassic Park deals: a fossil mosquito left over from the Johnson Administration must have bitten our fine young "new Democrat" and turned him overnight into a paleoliberal, crashing through the jungle taxing and spending...
...shaken by riots, Los Angeles got its first Republican mayor since 1961. Richard Riordan, a rich businessman who financed his campaign largely out of his own pocket, won 54% of the vote -- in a city where George Bush won only 22% -- to defeat city councilman Michael Woo, a liberal Democrat endorsed by Clinton. Riordan will succeed five-term Mayor Tom Bradley, who was elected by a bi-racial coalition that Woo had hoped would carry him to office as well. Riordan's base is among white voters attracted by his promise to make L.A. safe and thus create jobs. "Businesses...
...seven-time Prime Minister of Italy, Giulio Andreotti, has been battling charges of corruption and Mafia ties for many months. Now the wily Christian Democrat is at the center of a murder investigation, fending off allegations that he masterminded the killing of a journalist in 1979. As Senator-for-Life, Andreotti enjoys parliamentary immunity, but he has asked that this protection be lifted so that he can answer the "calumnies and falsehoods...
With all these advisers tugging in different directions, the unsettling issue is where Clinton really stands. Is he getting back to where he once belonged, or reinventing himself to suit the polls? The sometimes disappointed director of the Democratic Leadership Council, Al From, believes that the President has been at times overwhelmed by issues not of his own making, like gays in the military, and that the past week's moderate moves demonstrate who the real Clinton is. Says From: "I'm delighted that Clinton is returning to the New Democrat fold...