Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Similarly, Ronald Reagan felt it justified to risk American lives to oust Manuel Noriega. Reagan's media correspondents justified the war by claiming that Noriega was involved in drug trafficing, human rights violations and the abusive control of power through a squad of thugs who enforced a reign of terror. The validity of some of these claims is supported by empirical evidence. In hindsight, however, it seems all too apparent that the battle was fought because the interests of American merchants were being threatened...
...height of his absolutist influence, Louis XIV ordered a quick, decisive and successful bombardment of Algiers for harboring pirates. Afterward, a medal commemorating the event was inscribed with the words, "Algeria Fulminata" [Algiers Struck by Lightning]. In much the same vein, President Reagan could announce our successful blitzkrieg on the unruly Quadaffi in Libya in April, 1987; at the time, the U.S. still enjoyed virtual Sun King status in the West...
...Bush Administration had created a ground in which nobody could put together their sides for a strong enough opposition," Sharp said. "The environmentalists were thrown off guard by the president's bill because they saw the Bush Administration as a continuation of president [Ronald] Reagan whom they viewed as the enemy...
...right on gun control and his attack on Hollywood. He reminds the fervent budget cutters that back in 1985 he engineered the only across-the-board cut of federal programs (including a freeze on Social Security) that the Senate has ever passed-only to be undercut by Ronald Reagan. Last week Dole tried to push through one of his pet projects: easing regulations on business, a measure that is designed to appeal to conservative hard-liners. But when it comes to meat inspections and water-quality standards, his party is on the wrong side in the polls, and Democrats...
...Even Reagan, who was 69 in 1980, was able to deflect the issue with a combination of shrewdness, humor and take-it-or-leave-it confidence. "Conservative Republicans never sat around and said about Reagan, 'Don't you think he's too old? It's a hard job,'" recalls a party insider. "They knew who Reagan was. They trusted Reagan to be Reagan and stay Reagan, and they thought, 'If he has a heart attack, he'll still be Reagan...