Word: dobson
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...when he headed the Greater London Council - and so irritated Margaret Thatcher that she abolished the institution to get rid of him - won almost three quarters of the vote in the Labor party's primary, Blair fixed the selection process to ensure that his pick, former education secretary Frank Dobson, would get the nod. But that so enraged London Labor voters that they've flocked overwhelmingly to Livingstone's independent campaign. Going into Thursday's vote, Livingstone is the runaway favorite with some 49 percent in the polls, followed by Conservative party candidate Steven Norris with 16 percent and Blair...
...Feeling ignored, James Dobson (along with his deputy Gary Bauer) of the powerful Focus on the Family threatens to withdraw support for Congressional Republicans. Voters in midterm elections reject the right's campaign to impeach Clinton and hand the G.O.P devastating losses...
...Blinded by Might, former Moral Majority staff members Cal Thomas and Ed Dobson ask whether it is better to send "money to an organization vowing to pass legislation that would restrict the practice [of abortion] or volunteer at a local crisis pregnancy center." Their implied answer is clearly the latter. And there is mounting evidence that even within the Christian right, that perspective is winning the day. In the late 1990s, the hyperpolitical Christian Coalition went into steep decline, while Promise Keepers, an organization that believes many of the same things but shuns political action as the route to achieve...