Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former Education secretaries, Republicans William Bennett and Lamar Alexander, say the Cabinet department should be abolished and its work left to the states and communities. "Most federal programs can be done elsewhere," said Bennett, who headed Education under President Reagan. Alexander, who held the post in the Bush Administration and plans to run for president in 1996, suggested a deregulated, locally-run education system composed of charter schools. The two addressed a conference sponsored in part by Empower America, the conservative politcal group that Bennett co-chairs...
...case it was Future Shock (1970), which contributed its title phrase to the language and turned its author into a much sought-after consultant-prophet; Gilder's Wealth and Poverty (1981), a ringing endorsement of capitalism and supply-side economics, became a sacred text for members of the first Reagan Administration. Both have eagerly tackled subjects in which they possess no formal training. And both are relentlessly, almost wearyingly optimistic about what the future holds for those willing to embrace...
...this church, there are many cardinals. At one edge is San Francisco's J. Paul Emerson, a mammoth fist-pounder who doesn't mind saying he hates "the Japs." Toward the middle is syndicated host Michael Reagan, son of the former President; he and Limbaugh are the only persons made honorary members of the 104th Congress. Perhaps Reagan's most rebellious moment was when, he says, "I took on Nancy," by opposing his stepmother and supporting Oliver North for a Senate seat...
...markets, liberals are the kickees. Surely the Bay Area is the Mecca (or, as Rush would say, the Moscow) of the California left. But in San Francisco, KSFO has just dumped all its moderate and liberal talk-show hosts -- including Leykis -- to go to a conservative format featuring Hamblin, Reagan, Emerson and Pat Buchanan. What's the problem with liberals? "They are genetically engineered to not offend anybody," says Tom Tradup, general manager of talk station WLS in Chicago. "People who go on the air afraid of offending are not inherently entertaining...
...independent counsel investigating the contract-steering scandal surrounding former Housing Secretary Samuel Pierce announced that he would not bring any charges against the Reagan Administration official owing to lack of evidence. But the prosecutor, whose probe has resulted in 16 convictions of subordinates and others, forced Pierce to release a statement admitting that "my own conduct contributed to an environment in which these events could occur...