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...When the final scene of the movie arrives, and OH MY GOD, BATEMAN’S SUPPOSED TO BE REAGAN! GUZZLE! GUZZLE...
...scientists, many of whom depend on federal grants, decamped to labs in Europe or Singapore, where the government has made biotechnology a national priority. Some states have tried to fill the gap--California voted for a $3 billion bond initiative to fund stem-cell research. Advocates from Nancy Reagan to Michael J. Fox have pushed Congress to unleash more money and loosen the rules. Many Republicans as well as Democrats have been receptive, knowing that even socially conservative suburban voters tend to support the promise of research that they think might cure their parents' Alzheimer's or their children...
...federal government drafted them into the war on drugs. In 1986, the President's Commission on Organized Crime called on private employers "to support unequivocally" that "all use of drugs is unacceptable" and instructed the government to deny contracts to companies that did not do drug testing. President Reagan quickly ordered tests for federal job applicants and employees who carried guns or held "sensitive positions," and in 1988 Congress passed the Drug-Free Workplace Act, which required recipients of any government money to "maintain a drug-free workplace." In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected arguments that the federal drug...
...Since President Reagan launched the latest generation of U.S. missile defenses in 1983, envisioning an impregnable missile shield over the U.S., the nation has spent $91 billion (with $58 billion more slated to be spent over the next six years) to protect the country from missile attack. But his ambitious hopes to render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete" have been dramatically downsized. Reagan envisioned a network of satellites, sensors and even space-based weapons capable of thwarting a massive missile strike from the Soviet Union or China. But with the Cold War's end, the scale of the threat...
According to the Globe, President Ronald Reagan began the practice in the mid-1980s in order to increase executive authority. Since courts often look at a statute’s history to divine Congressional intent, Reagan reasoned that noting his thoughts on the law’s meaning could increase presidential influence over court rulings...