Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RECOVERING. JAMES BRADY, 55, former press secretary to Ronald Reagan, who was wounded in the 1981 attempt on Reagan's life, and went on to inspire an eponymous gun-control law; after suffering cardiac arrest at a dentist's office; in Fairfax, Virginia...
Clinton has been helped by a resurgent economy and a string of foreign policy successes. His 1993 budget has brought the deficit to its lowest point in ten years. Although the economy is not exploding like it did during the Reagan years, it has nonetheless shown steady growth over the last couple of years and it will likely continue this trend at least through next year's elections. The president is traditionally the figure who Americans give credit to or blame for the economy, as Ford, Carter, and Bush all found out to their distress. Clinton will inevitably benefit from...
Redstone said merger activity in the U.S. has increased at a rapid pace in the early 1980s, with favorable regulations approved by the Reagan administration. Mergers this year affected $347 billion of American business...
...thousands across America. They would do so on a tremendous wave of charitable giving that some conservatives appear to believe will occur almost spontaneously in response to the cutbacks. Leslie Lenkowsky, head of the Hudson Institute think tank, notes a bump in giving during the budget-cutting Reagan years and suggests that "with a return to the economic and tax climate of the 1980s...a repeat performance is not inconceivable...
...tanker for the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, makes much of his Democratic credentials: if he refers to his years as a speechwriter for Lyndon B. Johnson once, he does so a dozen times. He lays out his lifetime voting record, which reveals he is that mottled beast, a Reagan Democrat. He voted for Bill Clinton in 1992. And so he presents his book essentially as an open letter to Clinton, describing how the President has strayed from the centrist positions that got him elected and suggesting ways in which he--or whoever captures the "values" debate...