Word: nationals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...successful, exact a price. For Bush it was a victory without drum rolls, a majority without a meaningful mandate. The single-hued certainty of the TV tote boards left no ambiguity as to the verdict. Once again the American people had chosen a Republican President before much of the nation had even digested dinner. Yet on this 200th anniversary of the election of George Washington, there was a palpable hesitancy as America cast its votes. Rather than ratifying the Reagan realignment, a nation of ticket splitters strengthened Democratic control of Congress. The result, whether conscious or not, is certain...
...these dreams when he said, "A campaign is a disagreement, and disagreements divide. But an election is a decision, and decisions clear the way for harmony and peace." In an odd way, the dispiriting shallowness of the campaign had the virtue of leaving no lasting scars on the nation's psyche. Because there were no great disagreements on fundamental issues and no clashing visions of an American future, there are no deep divisions difficult to reconcile. The promise of a Bush Administration lies in the hope that the new President will soon inspire America to forget the manner in which...
...Though Washington recently announced new Medicare reimbursement policies that will boost payments for patients who incur exceptionally high costs, the Senate Special Committee on Aging reported last month that the crisis in rural health care may grow even worse. The committee concluded that as many as 600 of the nation's 2,700 rural hospitals are in danger of shutting down...
...campaign end. The to-and-fro of politics fascinates him even when the exchanges are as down and dirty as they were this year. For him and for the magazine, this issue charts not only a changing of the guard in Washington but also a new administration in our Nation section. Isaacson has been guiding our coverage of America's political landscape since 1986. Now he will concentrate on two formidable new projects: a full-length biography of Henry Kissinger and, as a senior writer for TIME, pieces ranging from essays on foreign policy to profiles of cultural figures...
...surprising in a time of apparent peace and prosperity to find such personal anguish welling up in response to Robertson's lament for a nation sliding into evil, or to Jackson's claim that white as well as black Americans were being victimized by a system that favored "merging corporations, purging workers and submerging our economy." This was a populism not derived so much from present economic distress as from uneasiness about the future, about the world of debt, of drugs, of illiteracy, of poor jobs or no jobs, that Americans will be leaving their children...