Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vice President's office, Bush's basic decency resurfaced. He brought dignity to the ceremonial parts of the office and handled himself with great composure during the assassination attempt on Reagan. When Ray Cline and others tried to advise him on assembling a staff of his own, Bush rightly said policy should be made in other offices; he was to be the President's confidant, not his competitor. But he did cultivate good relations with right- wing groups, which considered him suspect for his opposition to Reagan in the 1980 primaries. Thus when Bush spoke to the contra contributors cultivated...
...success: his factory produced only a few dozen cars before it closed. But there is another more common, more potent American Dream, which involves not the invention of products but the invention of self. And this movie, genial and fierce, is proof of Tucker's success in that more basic line. And proof of its sure grip on our imaginations...
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Ellwood argues that a pure welfare system--in which poor people would be given specific amounts of money to compensate for their low income--is bound to continue to be intensely criticized because it goes against basic American values. Welfare isolates and degrades its recipients, while fostering distrust and animosity among the general public, he argues...
...that justice remains far from color- blind. "There is a view in this country that if you're poor and black or Hispanic or Native American, you won't get a fair deal," says James B. Eaglin, chairman of the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice. "And the basic contentions that there are biases at every level of the system are well founded...