Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Bowing to the supply-side policies of Ronald Reagan, and promising to "end the IRS as we know it," and balance the budget while slashing middle-class taxes, Bob Dole unveiled a bold economic plan, the centerpiece of which is a $548 billion tax cut over six years. Said Dole: "I'm running for President because I believe America can do better. I believe that every family, and small business and wage earner in America can do better if only we have the right policies." The Dole plan is comprised of a 15 percent drop in individual...
...quixotic bid for the presidency in 1980, the earnest former Republican Congressman from Illinois with a distinctive helmet of white hair emerged from political obscurity to attack Reagan's economic proposals and Carter's foreign policy and to attract an army of idealistic supporters. With a late start and without a billionaire's bank account, Anderson was still able to garner nearly 7% of the vote, provoking pols and pundits to ponder anew the viability of independent and third-party candidacies. Today Anderson, a visiting professor of law at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, travels the lecture circuit...
...Video International dealt with Yeltsin on its own. Gorton had written several memos detailing how the shoot should proceed. Yeltsin, he said, should be filmed for at least four hours over several days, with the best 15 or 30 seconds culled for airing. "Even a former actor like Ronald Reagan would never attempt so important a task with less time and preparation devoted to the job," Gorton advised...
DIED. DANIEL TERRA, 85, founder of American art museums in Chicago and Giverny, France; in Washington. Terra was Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign-finance chairman...
...Hammer could never get it out of his head that a person who was unlisted and without a file was a person who was not being taken seriously. Years later, he was greatly distressed at not being on the list that the Reagan Administration turned out to have been keeping of people considered too left-wing to be sent abroad by the usia on cultural-exchange visits...