Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lifelong socialist. Yet now you are relying on market mechanisms, privatization, letting prices and interest rates find their own levels. It looks like an economic philosophy closer to Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's. What's socialist about...
DESPITE the obvious populist appeal of the issue, both Kennedy and Carter encountered little enthusiasm among congressional Democrats for limiting the deduction. And when former Senator Gary Hart (D-Col.) proposed cutting the deduction by 30 percent and using the savings to restore Reagan's cuts in the school-lunch program, he found only 30 votes in the Senate...
Democrats should jump on this potent issue before the Republicans claim it. Under Reagan, both the Treasury Department and the Office of Management and Budget proposed limiting T and E deductions. If Democrats are serious about favoring the working class and opposing corporate free-loaders, they should eliminate the T and E deduction entirely...
Several months ago, Iran informed the tribunal that in its view most of the claims had been paid out. Tehran wanted the balance, now about $820 million, that remained of the $1.4 billion the account originally held. In 1987 the Reagan Administration had unsuccessfully resisted a similar $500 million claim by Iran against a different account. This time the Bush Administration responded by dispatching Sofaer to the Hague. As part of the deal that was eventually reached, Iran agreed that $243 million from the account will be transferred to a third fund, covering claims against Iran by individual American citizens...
...flee the first chance they got. Beyond that, opening the Wall provided the strongest possible indication that Krenz meant to introduce freedoms that would make East Germany worth staying in. In both Germanys and around the world, after all, the Wall had become the perfect symbol of oppression. Ronald Reagan in 1987, standing at the Brandenburg Gate with his back to the barrier, was the most recent in a long line of visiting Western leaders who challenged the Communists to level the Wall if they wanted to prove that they were serious about liberalizing their societies. "Mr. Gorbachev, open this...