Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what if Kennedy -- never a popularizer -- force-fed readers far more about the Habsburg Empire than most of them ever wanted to know? What mattered was that his thesis (a debt-ridden U.S. was fast running the risk of "imperial overstretch") perfectly captured the edgy mood of the late Reagan years, as opinion leaders began to brood that it was twilight in America...
...massive and painful corporate downsizing, richly paid executives are out of step with the times. And while they may win a battle or two, it is almost certain that they will have to settle for something less than the grand lucre that came their way in the days of Reagan and Bush...
...PRESENCE HAUNTED THE HALLS OF Congress last Wednesday night, it was not Kennedy or Roosevelt or any of the other 20th century Democrats who beckoned the citizenry to sacrifice. It was Ronald Reagan, the last leader to stand before the country and sketch a vision so dramatic. "Government is not the solution to our problems," Reagan said in 1981. "Government is the problem...
...have every right to dream heroic dreams," Reagan said...
...uninfected community will certainly include sexual activity" and that "intravenous drugs may well become another regular medium of interaction," (italics mine) it is well established that casual contact between persons cannot facilitate the spread of the AIDS virus. In fact, if all unmarried couples just practiced abstention, the favorite Reagan-Bush prescription for the AIDS crisis, these immigrants would pose no problem whatsoever...