Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revenue-swelling program involving a 10 percent marginal tax hike on the wealthy and some cost-cutting--all in the hopes of slicing the budget deficit in half during his first term. Much of the plan is exactly what America needs: to move away from the borrow-and-spend Reagan-Bush years; to rebuild crumbling roads, bridges and other elements of the infrastructure; to provide tax credits for new investment, small businesses and research and development...
...course, Americans should not use foreign dollars as am investment crutch that allows them to consume more and invest less. This is precisely what happened during the Reagan years, and Clinton wants to fix it. But the answer cannot be to punish foreign investors. Instead, we should concentrate on another element of the Clinton plan: providing tax credits for Americans to invest in U.S. companies...
...remark is not only rough, it's wrong. Nancy Reagan's gelid smile and fixed gaze are foreign to Robinson, who really sparkles when she meets people. She has a thrilling, throaty laugh, but quips are not her style. Her brothers and old friends insist that she can top tall stories with the best of them -- and that in a land where the gab is the biggest gift of all. Around a dinner table, she and her husband often talk vehemently and at once, taking different verbal paths to the same end -- rather like characters in an opera...
...result of his re- election strategy. Since late last year, Bush has seen his campaign through the prism of 1988, when he ignored his advisers' pleas and waited until August before casting off the constraints of the vice presidency and posing as a moderate who had chafed under Ronald Reagan's conservative shackles. Bush, who likes to lower expectations and then surprise everyone by beating the depressed odds, again wants to wait until the Republican Convention in August to redefine himself. Bush expected that just as in 1988, he would slip behind in polls and then, when pundits had nearly...
...special target of Perot's has been Richard Armitage, at the time an Assistant Secretary of Defense, now a State Department official. In 1986 Perot called on both Vice President Bush and President Reagan to urge them to fire Armitage. Just what Armitage did to arouse the Texan's wrath, other than blocking Perot, is not clear. He was named in the Christic suit but produced a factual refutation of several charges; among other things, he proved that he was in Washington at a time when Christic and Perot said he was in Bangkok arranging drug smuggling. Armitage did once...