Word: electable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days the time it takes to induct Americans into the armed forces. And registration remains a political ploy--originally adopted to aid the flagging reelection campaign of President Carter, it also served as a part of that chief executive's dangerously confrontational revival of the cold war. And President-elect Ronald Reagan, who found it expedient to oppose registration during the campaign, seems likely to maintain it now that the reigns of power...
...Energy and Security's demand-side economics and long-term strategies for forestalling crises won't square with the president-elect's laissiz-faire philosophy and gunboat diplomacy. You can bet his staff will whisk the study out the White House doors in less time than it takes to say, "I paid for this microphone...
...arms budget not only threatens the quality and effectiveness of America's armed forces; in an era of accelerating inflation and tax-cut mania, it provokes justified fears of a "hyper-inflation" that would do more than any lag in missile production to erode American power. And if President-elect Reagan tries to dodge this specter by cutting giant swaths in social spending to make up for the tax cuts and the arms budget, the resulting domestic decay and turmoil would prove far more costly and damaging than any "perceived loss of military parity." And the American society that refused...
Martin S. Feldstein '61, professor of Economics, has informed President-elect Ronald Reagan's transition team that he will not take a position in the new administration...
WITH THE SELECTION of Jeanne Kirkpatrick as his choice for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, president-elect Ronald Reagan has realized the worst fears about his foreign policy towards the Third World and especially towards Latin American countries. Kirkpatrick, a Georgetown professor and harsh critic of President Carter's human rights policy, perhaps best encapsulated her attitudes when, in December, she said she strongly believes the U.S. should, in the name of stability, support "mildly repressive" governments. Revolutionaries, Kirkpatrick contends, only appeal to liberals because their rhetoric masks their real intentions: furthering Soviet ambitions for global domination and imposing...