Word: reaganism
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...side effects, is safer than surgical abortion, and is very effective for ending a pregnancy in the first trimester. Though RU 486 would be a big seller, French manufacturer Roussel Uclaf has avoided seeking approval in the U.S. Reason: the militant antiabortion movement, which had supporters in Presidents Reagan and Bush...
Tribe confirmed yesterday, through his secretary, that he is a candidate for solicitor general, a top Justice Department post. A pre-eminent constitutional scholar and well-known appellate advocate, Tribe has some experience in Washington. He was considered instrumental in killing President Ronald Reagan's 1987 nomination of Judge Robert Bork, giving several hours of Senate testimony on the nominee...
...decades we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present," Reagan said. "To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political and economic upheavals." The trend did not continue -- it accelerated, doubling the $1 trillion debt that he deplored, then doubling it again. Reagan's 67-mile-high stack of $1,000 bills, Clinton said, now reached up 267 miles. By the end of his speech, Clinton had grabbed hold of all that Reagan professed, wrapped it in burlap and cast it aside...
...four-year cost of $169 billion for new highways, summer jobs, environmental cleanup and other measures. Overall government spending would grow from $1.48 trillion in 1993 to $1.68 trillion in 1997. That is roughly the rate of current inflation and less than the average 6.4% growth of the Reagan-Bush presidencies. But that does not factor in the cost -- anywhere from $30 billion to $90 billion a year -- for extending health-care coverage to 37 million uninsured Americans...
...after the speech, Ronald Reagan presented a scorching critique on the op-ed page of the New York Times. Responding to Clinton's vow to "raise taxes on the people who did well in the 1980s," Reagan let fly: "Did I hear that right? Do they really believe that those who have worked hard and been successful should somehow be punished...