Word: rightward
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...During Wilson's 24 years at Chicago, his research on how worldwide economic changes combined with the residual effects of discrimination to produce the black underclass has shaped the view of most experts in the field. Now, at 60, he believes he can combat what he considers a disastrous rightward swing in national urban policy better from Harvard than from Chicago, where, he says, "I was feeling a little isolated in the past several years here because of my interest in public policy...
Just a year ago, Clinton was written off as irrelevant, the end of liberalism. Now he has a good chance of reversing the country's rightward path and at last becoming the president that many had hoped...
...nervous. After Watergate removed Richard Nixon from the political scene and gutted Republican numbers in Congress, the Republican Party rebuilt itself in the image of Ronald Reagan. His message of conservatism with a smile captured the hearts of voters. Ever since that time, the party has continued to move rightward, forcing longtime politicians like Dole to alter long-held positions to appeal to conservative voters. The current Congress is at work completing the anti-government revolution promised by Reagan...
...advisers keep wondering about tacking rightward--and it's their job to consider every contingency--but Dole has resisted such thoughts so far. As he prepared to speak at a National Guard convention last Wednesday, some of his aides suggested that Dole revive his call to make English America's "official language," a long-standing Dole position that ranks about midway on the G.O.P. right-wing's wish list. No, the candidate told his advisers, that would be "inappropriate" for an audience concerned with military matters. In stead Dole reiterated his essentially centrist themes, as he did all across...
...America has forced candidates for both the Republican and the Democratic nominations to play heavily to their core constituencies, which are, respectively, more conservative and more liberal than the electorate at large. These are the activists who vote most reliably in the primaries. Bob Dole, for example, veers increasingly rightward to bolster his support among the Christian right. Bill Clinton, despite his recent decision to back a balanced budget, has worked hard to please leftish groups like labor, the National Organization for Women and environmentalists to make sure he would not be challenged from the left for the nomination...