Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DeZala said he did not agree with former President Reagan's "policy of fighting the threat of communism...
...everything I could want. Almost. He likes me too and I think he'd like us to get together. But the only problem is that he's really conservative. He's anti-choice and thinks feminists are evil and misguided. And he's anti-gun control and thinks Reagan is God's gift to mankind. I disagree with him on all these issues and feel very strongly about this. I think I'd feel like a hypocrite for going out with him. What should I do? Hypocrite in Leverett...
Clinton's commemoration of World AIDS Day last week is one example. After a decade in which the word "AIDS" had to struggle valiantly simply to escape the lips of Presidents Reagan and Bush, Clinton's touching speech was a welcome change and a stirring call to action...
...Republican Kansas. I argued against the death penalty, vociferously condemned U.S. policy in Central America, and flirted with socialism as an answer to American domestic problems. My school lockers sported in turn a Mondale/Ferraro and a Dukakis/Bentsen sticker. At the time when Mr. Mayo was adulating him, Ronald Reagan was for me the incarnate manifestation of pure evil...
...Mother Teresa does more for the world in one hour," writes Mr. Mayo, "than Nixon, Reagan, and Bush did all their lives." I will admit the strong probability of the statement, and go farther. Mother Teresa does more for the poor in one hour than Johnson, Carter, and Clinton, with all their programs and initiatives, have done in all their careers. Humane commitment and deep compassion cannot be replaced by a faceless government bureaucracy whose primary effect has been to create a permanent underclass dependent upon the state...