Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...REAGAN...
...patchwork of political compromises, it is part of a real shift in federal policy that shows a new respect for nature. Throughout most of U.S. history, government actions have encouraged human exploitation of natural resources: logging, mining, drilling, grazing, damming rivers. That philosophy reached its height during the Reagan years, when Interior Secretary James Watt favored mining in wilderness areas...
...forth bold leadership. Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill were 20th century archetypes of the crisis leader. Mortal peril and powerful enemies can force leadership on ordinary men -- Harry Truman, for example. So can wrenching historic changes, like the dramatic endgame of the cold war, which cast players such as Reagan, Thatcher, Gorbachev and Walesa in historic roles...
...months ago, many Europeans and Japanese, beset by economic reverses and political paralysis, gazed at the young new American President with frank envy. Says Max Kampelman, a former U.S. diplomat and Ronald Reagan's chief arms-control negotiator: "I think the world was ready for a Bill Clinton leadership, but Bill Clinton wasn't ready. Our President has a capacity to lead, but he started out falling flat on his face." Eugene Rostow, an Under Secretary of State in Lyndon Johnson's presidency, had similar high hopes for fellow Democrat Clinton; he now finds himself "puzzled, startled, disappointed...
Both leaped to prominence in the late Reagan years: Seagal as a from-nowhere star in his first movie (Above the Law), Spy as the hipper-than-thou champion of attitude journalism. Both like to make fun of short people. Both offered sleek twists on tired genres: Seagal the martial-arts movie, Spy the glossy gossip rag. Both are deeply indebted to Creative Artists Agency boss Michael Ovitz, who is Seagal's movie mentor and Spy's eternal obsession. And both have sturdy Time Warner credentials: Seagal as one of Warner Bros.' most reliable moneymakers (Hard to Kill, Under Siege...