Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interested consumers' group to a bureaucracy behaving like a branch of government." Greenhaus charges that Consumers Union president Rhoda Karpatkin "is a politically active Democrat" and that CR has changed from conducting disinterested research to promoting a consciously liberal agenda. Says Karpatkin, citing a 1986 letter from Ronald Reagan praising Consumers Union's "competence and impartiality": "I do not engage in partisan politics...
Patti Davis, former first lady Nancy Reagan's rebel daughter, criticized her mother's stringent rules on how many cookies she could eat in her 1992 autobiography The Way I See It. And actress Lana Turner's daughter bemoaned her status as "hopelessly ugly" in her mother's eyes...
...make this clear from the very beginning: I am a defender of Space Station Freedom. I have supported it ever since the day in 1984 when, as an eight year-old space enthusiast, I watched then-President Ronald Reagan deliver a televised speech announcing the venture. Since then, the station has undergone more transformations of structure and purpose than any other project in NASA's history. Meanwhile, my reasons for supporting the station have also evolved. Nevertheless, I assert that the motives for the station's construction today are no less compelling, and possibly even more so, than the motives...
...course in those days, as in Reagan's, the goal of government-directed space research was to outdo the "evil empire" of the Soviet Union by trumping their achievements with more impressive ones of our own. Today I can open my morning newspaper and read a story about the American space shuttle executing a daring rendezvous with the Russian space station, Mir. Imagine that: the East and West working together in space for a change, instead of racing against each other. Contrary to popular belief, the planned international Space Station Freedom is not "NASA's space station;" it belongs...
...want to hand them part of his power could be accused of being out of touch. All that remained to be seen was whether it was for real. The movement's name--devolution--has a nice millennial-Tofflerian ring. But veteran legislators remembered that Republicans--most recently Ronald Reagan--have promised this sort of thing before. While Reagan downsized many federal programs, he failed to exempt the states from picking up the slack. Result: big federal-budget cuts and big increases in state taxes. This time both sides of Pennsylvania Avenue were on board, but even as Gingrich looked...