Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even so, some people are scared to death of her. One aide says the problem comes in mixing up "formidable" with "frightening." He says, "She has all the protective, wifely instincts of, say, Nancy Reagan, but then on top of that she is very smart, and so nothing gets by her, nothing." Hillary even took a hand in making office assignments for the West Wing. "We were looking at this floor plan and, presto, she had a layout it would have taken an industrial engineer weeks to figure. Not everybody was happy, but she got it right." Hillary does...
Hillary's open involvement in policymaking disturbs some Republicans and others who feel duped by the Hillary Lite that emerged in the latter stages of the campaign after polling found that voters were fearful of what pollsters termed an "empowered Nancy Reagan." If she had her fingers crossed when she was nodding sweetly, baking chocolate-chip cookies and calling herself Hillary Clinton, how many other things might be fudged for political expediency? Republican fund raisers such as Floyd Brown see a bait-and-switch tactic that they hope to capitalize on by portraying her as massively influencing everything from...
...last chapter in a long saga of confusion, wishful thinking, indecision and delay. For nearly a decade before the 1987 ozone treaty, nations were warned of the danger but did nothing. In the U.S. those who had the power to take action instead engaged in self-delusion: the Reagan Administration at first dismissed the ozone threat as a nonissue, while Du Pont and other manufacturers underestimated future sales of CFCs, making the hazard seem minimal...
...election of Ronald Reagan, abruptly interrupted these American efforts. The EPA was taken over by a pro-business team that did not like regulations and distrusted international agreements. Anne Burford, who headed the EPA in the early 1980s, regarded ozone depletion as an unsubstantiated scare story. Many demoralized professionals resigned, leaving the agency with few people who had any background on the issue...
...Pont, which poured $15 million into developing substitutes during the late 1970s, all but halted its research shortly after Reagan's election because no further regulation was on the horizon. Earlier, Du Pont had publicly committed itself to stop production of CFCs if "reputable evidence" showed they posed a hazard to the ozone layer. The company, however, set a tough standard for what constituted "reputable evidence." Du Pont challenged Rowland at every turn in the 1970s, and he believes the company's aggressiveness sent a chilling message to other scientists in the field...