Word: portrayal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Environmental Concerns: It is certainly not accurate to portray me or the industry as anti-environmentalist. We are making a plea for proper balance between clean air and water, and the dire need for energy. I think the industry has a good record. The problems are brought about by a few obstructionists who have used environmental legislation in a manner never intended by the legislators. These obstructionists are basically antibusiness groups and "no-growth" theorists. Some have been appointed to influential Government jobs...
Twentieth Century Fox paid Robert Redford $3 million to portray penologist Tom Murton in the film Brubaker, released last week. Tom Murton's lifetime earnings will probably never total $3 million. Or even $2 million...
...Those numbers were dismissed as "clearly wrong" by White House Counsel and Boycott Coordinator Lloyd Cutler. The White House scorecard, which tallies only non-Soviet bloc countries, named 60 no-shows, 80 attendees, and five countries whose intentions are unknown. Said Cutler: "There is no way the Soviets can portray either that the whole world is coming to Moscow and supports the Soviet position or that it doesn't care...
...lack of respect for government. . . When it reaches 25%, there comes an increase in lawlessness." History shows no such thing. Most Western European nations have long had tax rates far higher than that, and higher than U.S. rates, but with lower crime rates. Similarly, Reagan likes to portray himself as a tax cutter, citing as evidence that he rebated $5.7 billion to Californians when he was Governor. True enough, but the rebates came as a result of Reagan's increasing taxes by $21 billion, including a quadrupling of the state income...
...yore, campaigning full time across New Hampshire and banging away again at all his old targets with stimulating vigor: "There is enough fat in the Federal Government that if you rendered it, there would be enough soap to wash the whole world." Some 22 position papers designed to portray Reagan as a positive thinker were filed and forgotten. Instead, Reagan presented once again his nostalgic vision of a day still to be recaptured, when the individual was great and the Government small, the U.S. flag and dollar respected everywhere...