Word: wing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...most prominent critic has left-wing credentials...
Moderates felt there was no place for them in an organization dominated by their right-wing counterparts, says Michael G. Housman '02, the Republican Club's current vice president...
...proliferation of nuclear weapons everywhere, but the policy's one blind spot is Israel - and it may have to get even more blind following an unprecedented 45-minute debate in the Knesset Wednesday over Israel's as-yet unacknowledged nuclear weapons program. The debate was called by a left-wing Arab-Israeli legislator, Issam Mahoul, who wants whatever nukes exist, if they exist, to be dismantled. Cabinet ministers accused Mahoul of aiding Israel's enemies, and refused to answer his questions or budge from their traditional policy of "constructive ambiguity" - neither confirming nor denying the Jewish state's nuclear capability...
...Nazi; he's just a good old xenophobic, right-wing demagogue. Ignoring European Union warnings against allowing Jorg Haider's Freedom party into government, Austrian politicians moved Tuesday toward concluding a coalition agreement between the anti-immigrant party and the mainstream conservative People's party. Haider's previous statements sympathetic to the Third Reich's employment policies and his reference to the Waffen SS as "men of character and conviction" have had European politicians threatening diplomatic isolation if the Freedom party is allowed into government...
...debates to Bradley last fall, worried that the Vice President would be paralyzed by his compulsive need for days and days of preparation. But with Eskew, Shrum & Co. taking charge, Gore has got the rehearsal time for each debate down to two hours and has been confident enough to wing it from there. Gore advisers swear that his sudden, startling embrace of Clinton in the debate last week--"I don't think President Bill Clinton needs a lecture from Bill Bradley about how to stand up and fight for African Americans and Latinos in this country"--was never practiced...