Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jeffersonian actions. George Bush's attempt at just-folks normalcy was undermined when he turned a blind eye to his chief of staff flying military jets to private appointments, and closing the waters off Kennebunkport, Maine, while he pounded through the surf in his cigarette boat. Ronald Reagan could pull off the common touches as only a B-movie actor could, but his wife offset those by ordering a set of hand-painted china inscribed NANCY and a closetful of unpaid-for designer creations. Nixon dressed up the White House guards like something out of a Sigmund Romberg operetta...
...time of war when every able body is needed; and harassment, intimidation and administrative discharges for gays and lesbians increase when the shooting stops. That employment practice was especially evident from the late '70s through the '80s, when the draft was replaced by volunteerism. On the eve of the Reagan Administration, Deputy Secretary of Defense Graham Claytor Jr., once law clerk of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, laid the groundwork for the Pentagon's current antigay policy. The essence contained in a Joint Chiefs of Staff statement was that "homosexuality is incompatible with military service...
Abstinence is hardly a new idea, but the organized abstinence-only movement dates back to a Reagan-era program that set aside $2 million a year for the development of classroom materials to teach adolescents to say no to sex. Today there are more than a dozen competing curriculums on the market, each offering lesson plans, activities and workbook exercises designed to encourage abstinence among teenagers...
Star Wars -- the antimissile defense scheme, not the movie series -- is finished. The Strategic Defense Initiative that Ronald Reagan proposed in 1983 to establish an outer space-based shield against Soviet nuclear missiles was declared dead by Defensec Secretary Les Aspin. Some $30 billion had been spent on the program...
Another legacy of the Reagan years was undone when the Clinton Administration decided to invite 11,400 air-traffic controllers to reapply for the jobs that Reagan had them dismissed from during their illegal 1981 strike...