Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...huge case loads, and soon the newspapers were filled with horror stories not only about failures to remove children from dangerous homes but also about abuse in foster families and kids who bounced almost unnoticed from one inappropriate foster-care experience to the next. A report commissioned by the Reagan Administration in the late '80s concluded: "Foster care is intended to protect children from neglect and abuse at the hands of parents and other family members, yet all too often it becomes an equally cruel form of neglect and abuse by the state...
Moving quickly to nip the budding talk of returning to Reagan's hawkish days, Defense Secretary William Perry today rejected calls for reviving a "Star Wars" missile defense system. Perry told reporters that there's no current threat justifying that kind of costly buildup. Should a reason for it materialize, Perry said, the Pentagon is prepared to meet the threat. Perry also disclosed that the Clinton Administration plans to move forward with an "aggressive" schedule for sea-based and ground-based anti-missile defense systems -- not a huge effort that could lead to deployment of a continental missile defense system...
...CNN/USA Today/Gallup released today says. The survey of 1,014, taken over the weekend, showed the president's job approval rating at 42 percent, against 50 percent disapproval. That's thelowest ratingof any president at this stage of his term, with the one exception an encouraging one -- Ronald Reagan, who easily rebounded to re-election after a 1982 rating one point lower than Clinton's.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...
...RONALD REAGAN IS A LIVING LEGEND FOR many outside the U.S., including the Poles and others in Eastern Europe. Reagan was an outstanding personality who destroyed communism with his strong policy. Who knows what might have happened to Eastern Europe if it had not been for Reagan? For many people, he is a fighter. I believe he will fight this battle to the end, supported by millions of people all over the world...
...blowing up reputations abroad and at home. He likened Haitian leader Jean- Bertrand Aristide to Adolf Hitler. He still refers to the world's most populous country as "Red" China. He stuck up for the architects of apartheid over the black majority in South Africa and once accused Reagan-era Secretary of State George Shultz of "playing footsie with the communists." Last year, after debating Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, the first black woman in the Senate, about the virtues of the Confederate flag, he said, "I'm going to sing Dixie to her until she cries." When Clinton nominated Roberta...