Word: nationals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work, which is why we should never let the top tax bracket creep back up past 33% (it was 70% as recently as 1981). But you do tax the things you'd like to discourage, like inefficient energy consumption (and its attendant pollution), reliance on imported oil (which threatens national security and worsens the trade deficit) and tobacco (widely recognized as the nation's leading cause of preventable death...
Last week began with the arraignment of Imelda Marcos, who left her Hawaiian retreat to plead not guilty to charges that she and her husband, the deposed Philippine President, embezzled $103 million from their nation's treasury. Mrs. Marcos could give Bette Midler tips on making an entrance. She swept into U.S. district court in nothing less bewitching than a floor-length turquoise gown, a silk-and-chiffon terno that is traditional Philippine wear. As she hoisted her presence up the courthouse steps, packs of demonstrators reared up to denounce her as the bloodsucker of the Philippine people. One woman...
...Democrats. They begin each presidential cycle convinced that they have at last redefined their ideology, risen above the folly of faction and rediscovered the magic formula to create a national majority. The jaunty confidence of the Atlanta convention and the euphoria that accompanied summer polls pointing to a Dukakis landslide are a potent illustration of how deeply self-deception is embedded in the party's soul. Each presidential pratfall comes as a stunning surprise, since the Democrats stubbornly refuse to acknowledge that around 1968 or 1972 they ceased to be the nation's natural governing party. The myth structure that...
Jason and I were best friends in Reston, Virginia, where we grew up. One of the nation's first planned communities, Reston fondly referred to itself as a "place called Reston," clearly setting itself apart from places where other people live like towns or cities...
...Republicans ran a candidate who, by many accounts, should not have won. Despite the surface appeal of "peace and prosperity," the public's distaste for Bush and widespread uncertainty about the nation's economic future dealt Republicans their worst opening hand since the post-Watergate campaign in 1976. Yet the Democrats still could not trump...