Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shouldn't stop there. Promoting democracy means more than encouraging reform in the communist bloc. It means adopting a foreign policy based on respect for human rights and political freedom rather than on Cold War ideological prejudices. It means using American influence and moral example to eliminate human rights abuses in nations of all ideological persuasions...
...Maximize the opportunities for individual initiative in American society, eliminating barriers to advancement and ensuring justice and fair play for everyone...
What I'm talking about is making American society a truly level playing field. To do that, we need to take away the free rides that some people have come to enjoy, be they members of the Teamsters union who demand excessive wages, corporations that avoid their fair share of the tax burden or professionals who work to exclude others from competing with them...
Finally, we need to use the American system of justice to actually see that justice is done. We must provide equal access to the courts for rich and poor alike. We must reverse the Reagan-era tendency to wink at discrimination and abuses of power...
...Make high-quality education freely available to every American...