Word: wing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...think in opinionated sound bites. Souter, with his Yankee reticence, does not presume anyone would be interested in what he thinks if legal scholars have already thought about it. In that, he may be the answer to the President's secret moderate dreams: someone conservative enough to allay right-wing suspicions that he has been insufficiently sympathetic to their causes but at the same time unknown enough to keep liberals from finding anything on which to hang another bruising confirmation fight...
...political spectrum and is a reminder that the label does not belong only to Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms. Elizabeth Hager, who led the state's successful 1972 fight to pass an equal-rights amendment, points out that people outside the state "equate the word conservative with right wing. We don't do that in New Hampshire...
...right-wing agenda is the repeal of Roe v. Wade. O'Connor, the court's only woman, has seemed sympathetic to such a reversal but reluctant to provide the decisive vote in a court split 5 to 4 on the issue. But if another antiabortion Justice joined the bench, O'Connor could take refuge in a 6-to-3 majority...
Last week, as Gorbachev struggled to bring the party whole and united out of the 28th Congress, the two men figured in one of his most remarkable triumphs -- and abrupt setbacks. After 10 days of harsh attack, he put down the right- wing revolt with a display of personal authority so convincing that his victory might justly have been dubbed "Ligachev's last stand." It was then, from his left flank, that Yeltsin pounced. When the chairman of the Russian parliament announced he was pulling out of the party, he paved the way in effect for a potentially dangerous split...
...make his move. The blistering attacks against Kremlin policies in the opening days of the Congress left no doubt that conservatives were intent on forcing the party to the right -- and the party leader with it. Wielding his muscle, Gorbachev handily kept the job of General Secretary. The right wing decided instead to wage war for the key post of deputy, who would supervise day-to-day party business. Whoever controlled that job would in effect control the party...