Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highlight of a flood of Alzheimer's news last week--including encouraging reports on drugs that alleviate the symptoms of the disease and perhaps even reduce the risk of developing it. Short of a cure, says Zaven Khachaturian, director of the Alzheimer's Association's Ronald and Nancy Reagan Research Institute, more welcome news cannot be imagined...
...America's most famous Alzheimer's victim, and on a good day he can still get off a satisfying one-liner. Reminded last month that his granddaughter Ashley, 13, had once said she would love him "even if Grandpa didn't know me," Ronald Reagan shot back, "What do they mean? I know who Ashley is." On a bad day, however, a former high White House official can stop by for a brief visit and leave convinced that his old boss could not quite place...
...excluded from international condemnation simply because they bought their way out of World War II. We should all recognize our crimes against the Jews and focus on teaching our children how to avoid spreading the ignorance that was rampant in the early days of the century. APRIL D. REAGAN Apex, North Carolina...
...instance, he opposed a Reagan-sponsored tax-reform bill that would have closed certain special-interest loopholes. That same year, Lott and Congressman Jack Kemp persuaded Reagan not to support the Republican Senate's efforts to reduce the cost of living allowances for Social Security, and the measure failed in the House. Two years later, Lott joined with Democrats to override Reagan's veto of a pork-larded highway bill, explaining that he wanted some of that spending for his district. And in 1990 he opposed President Bush over a deficit-reduction package that included both spending cuts...
...outcome of his Whitewater probe but insists nonetheless that there's no conflict. Starr's deputy John Bates says, "It's not political but legal judgment that matters, and Starr's remains impeccable." At the very least, as Joseph DiGenova, a former independent counsel and U.S. Attorney in the Reagan Administration, points out, "It's another unfortunate circumstance which is unnecessarily distracting." DiGenova faults Starr too for continuing his $1-million-a-year law practice, which includes tobacco clients, and for speaking at Clinton-basher Pat Robertson's Regent University. "Ken's a fine man, but he doesn't listen...