Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former premier, who is establishing afoundation in his native country, has also visitedthe Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter presidentiallibraries during his trip in the U.S. and will bevisiting the John F. Kennedy presidential libraryin Boston Friday morning...
...good deal did get accomplished and a real industry started to form, then the Reagan Administration came in and swept away all of the tax incentives for alternative energy sources. That just killed the movement. Of course, they kept all the tax breaks for the oil and coal industries, they even increased them...
...Simi Valley, which is just 2% black. A large part of the local citizenry moved there to escape Los Angeles and all it represents to them: gangs, crime, high housing prices and minorities. The place is home to a large number of police and fire fighters. The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is there. Even if Simi Valley could not be counted on to yield an old-fashioned, Alabama-style jury, any panel chosen from there was more likely to identify with the four white officers who had held the nightsticks than with the one black man writhing on the ground...
...grand jury charged former housing-department aide Deborah Gore Dean with accepting a $4,000 bribe during her Reagan-era tenure at the beleaguered agency. The onetime bartender admitted there were some "bad apples" at hud but denied personal wrongdoing...
...Huxtable is gone. What are Americans to do for fathers? Ronald Reagan was a hologram of American Dad. George Bush is, so to speak, a less vivid absence than Reagan. He seems to be away a lot, either physically or morally. When he does come home to try to focus, Americans almost wish he would not: He has been going too often into his '50s flustery, dufus mode. Mario Cuomo is the only Democrat who looks and talks like a father, but he refused to accept the role, and that amounted to abandonment. He left the Democratic race...