Word: populists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan has a folksy, homespun manner, but neither his policies nor his life-style quite conveys the image of a populist President. Yet there he was on national TV last week and in Colonial Williamsburg, Va., Oshkosh, Wis., and Malvern, Pa., assailing a tax code that "runs roughshod over Main Street America" and calling for an end to "unproductive tax shelters, so that no one will be able to hide in the havens privilege builds." Looking ever more fit and sounding ever more feisty, Reagan relished being back on the road, taking the offense in pursuit of the boldest...
...chief architect of the Kahuta program was Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the populist politician who became President in 1971 and was overthrown by Zia in 1977. (In 1978 the popular Bhutto was hanged by the Zia government for allegedly conspiring to have a political opponent killed.) Bhutto was obsessed by India's nuclear progress. In 1965 he had declared, "If India builds the Bomb, we will eat grass or leaves, even go hungry. But we will...
...plan the President approved last week in nearly final form is the diluted successor to a widely heralded proposal first unveiled by the Treasury last November. The original plan, now referred to as Treasury I, was a breathtakingly populist document. It offended nearly every special interest. Only the truly sacred cows, like deductions for mortgage interest on family homes, were left unscathed. The package that the President will send to Congress, on the other hand, is a good deal less pristine...
...visits by UFOs that is now trying to climb upscale. The prototypical Murdoch daily is flag-waving conservative, and politicians favored by its owner are featured prominently in the news columns. At a time when newspapers are increasingly concerned with attracting affluent readers, Murdoch presents himself as a populist eager to satisfy the man in the street...
...mediator, Neves had once before been called upon at a crucial juncture in Brazilian history. In 1961 the country's generals grew restless under a populist President, Joao Goulart. Neves was asked to take the newly created job of Prime Minister, thus diluting Goulart's power. By accepting, he helped preserve civilian rule a little longer. Two years after Neves stepped down in 1962, Goulart was overthrown in a coup. The military ruled until Neves won the presidency last January...