Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after layer of contradictory public positions--he is for affirmative action, then against it; he favored comprehensive health-care reform, then he dismissed the idea that there was a health-care crisis. He has fought alongside ideologues enough to learn not to trust them; in 1985, when he believed Reagan was serious about cutting the deficit, he actually took his knife to Social Security--only to be abandoned by Reagan at the urging of Jack Kemp, and to sacrifice his Senate majority as a result...
...change in the landscape is already remarkable. In 1976 President Ford scored mightily when he blasted his Republican primary challenger for merely talking about the "most extreme and irresponsible blueprint for back-door socialism that I ever heard." Ford's challenger was Ronald Reagan--and all Reagan had done was point out that "some economists" had suggested the system might be saved if Social Security funds could be invested in the stock market, exactly the same "fix" being proposed today...
SENTENCED. JAMES WATT, 58, Reagan-era Secretary of the Interior; to community service and a $5,000 fine; after pleading guilty to attempting to influence a grand jury looking into his lobbying activities; in Washington...
...speech is a direct cause of "bad" behavior was not new; 19th-century social purists and some leading conservative feminists fought to suppress "vicious" literature, as well as information about contraception. But a century later, the revival of a feminist anti-porn movement coincided with the election of Ronald Reagan and the rise of conservative Republicanism buoyed by an intolerant religious right. Left-wing protests of pornography and "hate" speech, in general, helped legitimate growing right-wing censorship campaigns. Their targets differed--activists on the right focused on sex and AIDS education, the study of evolution, literature about homosexuality...
...candidate of ideas without terminally alienating the Republican Party. Dal Col himself was mindful of the example of Jim Baker, George Bush's 1980 campaign manager, who yanked his eager candidate out of the race so that it would not poison Bush's chances of becoming Ronald Reagan's Vice President...