Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, Newsweek's portrayal of Bill Clinton as a knight on horseback conveys more hope than irony, whereas a similar picture of Ronald Reagan or George Bush would have been meant as a sneer at the president's delusions of grandeur. Perhaps some of this is due to the media's liberal slant, but not all. Both liberal and conservative politicians are routinely subjected to the sort of ridicule which Clinton is presently being spared. What, then, is the reason for this new optimism about politicians...
...warned by his barristers in England that the novel was certain to offend several people, including Mikhail Gorbachev, Queen Elizabeth, Frank Sinatra and Nancy Reagan. Barnes is perhaps the only novelist writing today who could plausibly insert a reference to the torrid geriatric sex, in which the last two allegedly indulged, in a novel about post-communist Eastern Europe...
This one was over early. Ronnie-Reagan-bedtime early. Harvard jumped out to a 15-4 lead in the first four minutes of the game. In that time it threw down three trifectas: Junior guards Kelly Morrison and Cara Frey connected from international waters on back-to-back possessions...
...EXONERATION WITHOUT MUCH CONVICtion. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's investigation of allegations that the Reagan campaign connived with Iranian authorities to delay the release of 52 American hostages during the 1980 election concluded that "the great weight of evidence is that there was no such deal." But the committee report did charge that the conduct of Reagan campaign chairman and later CIA Director William Casey verged "on the outer limits of propriety" when he secretly gathered intelligence on the delicate U.S.-Iranian hostage negotiations in 1980. The investigation, run on a shoestring budget, never did find such critical evidence...
Federal support of such fetal-tissue research is currently banned in the U.S as a result of the Reagan and Bush administrations' desire to placate antiabortion forces who feared that women would terminate pregnancies to provide tissue for transplants. President-elect Clinton opposes...