Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to believe that this exceedingly lame showing is the product of the Reagan and Bush administrations; what good is blue-chip Republican Babbittry if it can't mount an impressive world's fair pavilion? Elsewhere at Expo, the Berlin Philharmonic will play, and Ingmar Bergman will direct Peer Gynt; at the U.S. pavilion, Arnold Schwarzenegger will stop by in September to judge a bodybuilding contest...
Four years later, the Reagan campaign made devastating use of a photograph of Carter embracing Brezhnev at the summit meeting where the arms pact was finally signed, adding a caption, YOU, TOO, CAN KISS OFF CARTER. The voters obliged...
...Reed as a source for absurdly speculative accounts. None of those who are taking Reed's wild stories seriously seem to have asked why Clinton, a vocal critic of U.S. aid to the contras who even then was considering running for President, would have done risky favors for the Reagan Administration. But then again, answering that question would spoil...
Ironically, Ronald Reagan's 1986 tax reform was inspired in part by a golf- course conversation with George Shultz, his Secretary of State, who praised the same 1981 consumption-tax plan, authored by Stanford economists Robert Hall and Alvin Rabushka, on which Jerry Brown claims to have (very loosely) based his current proposal. One of the most elegant consumption-tax plans was ! crafted even earlier, in 1977, by economist David Bradford and his Treasury tax-policy staff...
...BILLED AS THE MOST IMPORTANT SHOWDOWN between management and labor in this country since Ronald Reagan crippled the air-traffic-controll ers union 11 years ago. But the situation in Peoria, Ill., involving the leadership of Caterpillar Inc. and the United Auto Workers is really all about pain...