Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't Congress want to close bases? Because constituents worked at the bases. Why did so many work there? Because industry has become reliant on the military to support its bloated size. How did the military accomplish this bloating? Through Reagan-era oversizing that did not, repeat did not, cause the Cold War to come to an end. After all, how can the MX missile take credit for thirty years of industrial decline in a foreign nation? There's no answer...
...companies were heavily involved in the California real estate market, which boomed during the Reagan presidency and busted in recent years. Epstein says he was also involved in investments with the entertainment industry, and his Harvard students say he often told stories about his connection to the Hollywood elite during his class on financial reporting and management accounting last fall...
Just as important is the tenor of the demonstration. Washington attorney Albert Lauber, a former Reagan Administration Justice Department official who is housing six out-of-town friends for the event, says, "This is a rally, not a parade." Gay leaders are reluctant to criticize anyone for exotic life- style -- the movement is, after all, centered on freedom to live as one wishes -- but they are queasy about the disproportionate media attention that might be paid to "dykes on bikes," bearded transvestites, men dressed as nuns and other proponents of life as street theater. Civil rights arguments are easier...
...many ways, Wynn represents the new face of gambling in America, ingratiating and scrubbed, ready to join with Reagan's "Morning in America" adman to soften resistance to what once was considered a slightly sinful indulgence. Partly because of salesmen like him, gambling is spreading so quickly and quietly across the country these days, says David Johnston, the author of Temples of Chance, that "few people realize Minnesota has more casinos than Atlantic City." The business has exploded in just over a decade, with casino revenues going from $2 billion a year in 1978 to nearly $10 billion today...
...smart, how come I'm the one who's President?" The problem is undisciplined arrogance. As Clinton has threatened to withhold patronage from Democratic defectors and to campaign against Republican opponents, so did his model, Roosevelt. But F.D.R. wooed the G.O.P. assiduously -- "and so did Ronald Reagan," says a Clinton aide. "He made heroes of the Boll Weevils," conservative Democrats who delivered the margins of victory for Reagan's program. "All we've really done is wield the stick. That's why it was so easy for Bob Dole to roll us. Everyone likes to be stroked, and Congress...