Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mistake. Those kinds of bargains are not the way to deal with kidnappers. They only encourage more kidnapping. I think it made it very difficult for Reagan to convince the kidnappers that he was still a virgin, that he wasn't going to bargain with them, because he had already done it once...
...blamed the rioting on everything from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society to liberal permissiveness. The Democratic response, from putative presidential nominee Bill Clinton on down, was equally predictable: this time the villains were a decade of Republican neglect of urban problems and the laissez-faire moral climate of the Reagan years...
...years after his speech, Churchill became Prime Minister again; Gorbachev too may dream of political resurrection. He was in the midst of a 13-day speaking tour of the U.S., trying to raise $3 million for his new think tank in Moscow. At an earlier stop last week, Ronald Reagan was host at a luncheon near Los Angeles in Gorbachev's honor. Ticket price...
...befits the site of Ronald Reagan's Presidential Library, Simi Valley also votes overwhelmingly Republican. The Los Angeles riots have made the problems of the cities an issue to be reckoned with in this year's election campaigns. But the 1992 presidential election will also be the first in which suburbanites are a majority of the voters -- up from just 36% in 1968, when the white backlash against the ghetto riots of that era helped elect Richard Nixon. What Nixon understood then, and what a great deal of state and federal policy has reflected since then, is that the suburbs...
...thinking was that American's fundamental moral character changed spontaneously in 1980 and the recession was a JUDGEMENT FROM GOD on us for our sins. It was a penance for greed a la Reagan and Boesky. It was not just a downturn in the country's real GNP--no, no, no. If we were better people, it would never have happened...