Word: rea
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every action, gesture and word by a President-elect and his staff becomes symbolic of something larger expected later. Every contact, every appointee is a declaration of policy that may rock the world. Nothing is too trivial, remote or obscure. Already the quivering hordes of analysts have perceived the Rea gan global strategist (Alexander Haig), most powerful legislative ally (Paul Laxalt), shadow behind the power (Richard Nixon), new fashion color (brown...
...Allen, his National Security Adviser, was scheduled to brief Reagan before this week's trip to Ciudad Juarez to meet Mexican President López Portillo. But the most pressing business was to finish naming his Cabinet. Unlike Carter, who filled his Cabinet by Christmas four years ago, Rea gan has been unable to decide on a Secretary of Education and a special trade representative. Several people have turned down Education, a department that Reagan favors dismantling. Said the President-elect: "I think we've sought a few people that just weren't interested in Government service...
...boost defense outlays at the same time. In the process, the deficit for the 1981 fiscal year that began in October could all too easily wind up swelling to $55 billion or even $60 billion instead of the $50 billion that is now projected, or the $27 billion that Rea gan is shooting for. Says Fiscal Expert Joseph Pechman of the liberal Brookings Institution in Washington: "The Reagan people are not in power yet, but they should understand that the budget has real effects on the economy...
...every trend there is a puzzling offsetting countertrend. If some national polls show the President now leading by an eyelash, many state polls show Rea gan ahead by small margins among the people most likely to vote. If Anderson backers in most states are drifting toward Carter, those in Michigan are mainly moderate Republicans who are moving to Reagan, preserving the Californian's narrow lead in that all-important state...
...elderly have to pay more and more for what they buy, while they are limited in the income they have. I don't under stand why his [Carter's] answer to inflation was to put 2 million people out of work." In a Friday night TV speech, Rea gan pointed out that the consumer price index rose in September at a 12.7% annual rate and declared that Carter's record on inflation and unemployment "is a failure on a scale so vast, in dimensions so broad, with effects so devastating, that it is virtually without parallel...