Word: election
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan had his role rehearsed to perfection: a serious President-elect determined to get his Administration off to a fast start, yet relaxed and good humored with everyone. Worries about inflation, unemployment, the Persian Gulf war, the Soviets: all the nation's manifold and intractable problems seemed to be pushed aside. They will surely arise to haunt Reagan later, but the week was devoted to symbolic ritual-briefings by the CIA, a courtesy call on the Justices of the Supreme Court, a visit with Jimmy Carter at the White House-rather than substantive policymaking. The ceremony had a serious...
...California. Quite clearly, he was honestly surprised by the welcome he had received in the city that, in effect, he had campaigned against, decrying the nation's capital as the symbol of the Big Government dragon that he was so determined to slay. But when the President-elect flew in last week, Washington warmed to him as though he were a native son, mainly because he came not as a conquering hero but as a man with natural poise and an instinct for the gracious touch that seemed to dazzle almost everyone he met. The fact that Reagan...
Cambridge officials agree that if President-elect Reagan's administration cuts off federal aid to cities with rent control, Cambridge may have to end its rent control program...
...President-elect's swearing-in was still eleven weeks away, but on Wall Street, which has long been Ronald Reagan country, the bulls began a kind of Inaugural Ball right after the landslide. In the eight trading days following Nov. 4, investors grabbed up long-depressed shares with enough zeal to set new records for trading volume and push the widely watched Dow Jones industrial average of 30 blue-chip stocks up by 49 points, to 986.35; that was a half point below the previous high reached on Jan. 10, 1977-just ten days before Jimmy Carter moved into...
...returned to health without much cost to Americans in terms of lowered standards of living. Reagan endorses the views of so-called supply-siders like Congressman Jack Kemp and former Treasury Secretary William Simon, who want to spur growth by stimulating business investment rather than consumer spending. The President-elect maintains that the country can spend its way out of the slump without stoking inflation...