Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, Sebastian Conley crossed the line in his comic strip "Seth Lives" when he portrayed former president Ronald Reagan as forgetting his lines at the re-naming ceremonies of North House (Editorial Cartoon, Opinion Page, Dec. 12). The character Seth leaned into the frame and informed Reagan. "That's Pforzheimer House, not Alzheimer's House...
What possible political or other purpose does it serve to ridicule President Reagan for having a deadly disease afflicting millions of elderly Americans? How does that in any way reflect on his politics, his actions or even his personality? One can well imagine the hue and cry on this campus if Conley ridiculed homosexuals with AIDS; I would go so far as to assert that the editors of The Crimson would refuse to run it. Why, then, is there a double standard for Ronald Reagan, particularly when he suffers from an ailment which he developed through no fault...
...every student on this campus who possess even an ounce of decency to join with the Harvard Republican Club in denouncing this kind of hate mongering. Whether you agree with Reagan's politics or not, there is no moral justification for jeering at a dying man. As for Mr. Conley and the editors who printed his strip, we suggest that you send a letter of apology to President Reagan and print it in these pages. I am not sure to what audience you thought you were appealing; I can easy think of one man who would have laughed...
...families with incomes of as much as $200,000 a year with a $500-per-child tax credit. "The question is going to become, at what point to do they set off a bidding war?" says TIME congressional correspondent Karen Tumulty. "It's similar to what happened in Ronald Reagan's first year, when he forced the Democrats to up the ante on tax cuts; as a result, our grandchildren will be paying it off. I think the Democrats are very afraid of that, but they've got to respond...
...step. "It's going to be a shot across the fiscal management bow of every other university in the country," says McWhirter, who spoke to sources close to the school's board. The reason Michigan State took the initiative, McWhirter says, is that university President Peter McPherson -- a former Reagan-Bush deputy Treasury secretary -- came from the world of finance and "has been a crusader for strict budgetary accountability. It's a philosophy much closer to market pricing -- and clearly driven by what people are willing to pay, not what it costs to produce...