Word: socialist
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...rural state like Vermont, Bernie Sanders carries heavy political baggage. His native Brooklyn bray grates on Yankee ears. Worse yet, he is a socialist. And he struck out in previous tries at statewide office. Yet the four-term former mayor of Burlington last week was elected the first independent Congressman in decades. Why? While Sanders rails raucously against huge corporations and tax breaks for the wealthy, Vermonters finally realized that his revolutionary bark has little bite. He ran Burlington efficiently, pushing nothing much more radical than a decree that 10% of all city-funded trade jobs go to women. Also...
...months last year, it appeared as if a new wave of feminism was sweeping Japan, raising a clamorous challenge to age-old male authority. It began when housewives, enraged by a new tax, swarmed to political rallies, urging that a "voice from the kitchen" reach the male-dominated government. Socialist Takako Doi, the first woman in Japanese history to lead a major political party, inspired an unprecedented number of women to run for the Diet's upper house, and they grabbed a record number of seats. Prime Minister Sousuke Uno resigned in disgrace after a former geisha he had patronized...
Vermont sent Socialist Bernie Sanders to the House--in place of a Republican. But former GOP Gov. Richard Snelling won his old job back, and with it, the statehouse for his party...
Although many people may not have heard of Umina, he is still in that race. He and at least two other independent candidates running for governor--one a socialist and one a former Democrat--are billing themselves as viable alternatives to John R. Silber and William F. Weld...
Emanation, the socialist candidate, readilyacknowledges the fact that his party doesn't haveany hope of snagging the corner office--at least,not this year...