Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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REPUBLICANS VS. DEMOCRATS: David Gergen worked for Nixon, Ford and, most prominently, Ronald Reagan. Now he works for the man pledged to undo all the terrible effects of Reaganism...
PATTI DAVIS VS. THE REAGANS: Meanwhile, on the Reagan home front, alliances have shifted as well. Patti, having called Mom a pill-popping child abuser and Dad cruelly distant, now tells Variety that they all get on just fine...
...experience of wheeling oversize carts down a 20-ft.-wide aisle that meanders through the 10- acre complex like a yellow-brick road. As a result, Leonard has been hailed as a monument to family enterprise and brilliant marketing by everyone from chicken toughie Frank Perdue to Ronald Reagan to Tom Peters, author of A Passion for Excellence. Companies such as Wal-Mart and Wendy's have sent executives on pilgrimages to study Stew's methods...
...director when he put an end to the tortuous, scandal-plagued tenure of William Sessions with two short phone calls: the first to tell Sessions he was dismissed, the second to add that it was effective immediately. Appointed to a 10-year term in 1987 by Ronald Reagan, Sessions had been under pressure to resign since January, when the Bush Administration's Justice Department released a report accusing him of a range of ethical violations, including misuse of bureau planes and limousines. But Sessions refused to step down. "It was not hard," Clinton said later of the firing...
...N.A.A.C.P. could use a boost. Under Chavis' predecessor, Benjamin Hooks, the group's influence sagged and membership dragged. The leadership spent almost as much energy beating down internal feuds as battling the Reagan and Bush administrations' attempts to turn back the clock on civil rights. Even the yearlong search for Hooks' replacement came close to a meltdown when Jesse Jackson abruptly withdrew his name from consideration just before the 64- member board of directors met to make its decision...