Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to reverse the Reagan Administration's tight policy on information control, two top Harvard administrators this week released a report calling on President Bush to overhaul federal practices involving the dissemination of information...
During the past several years, Harvard has led the nation's universities in opposing what it views as harmful restrictions on the free flow of information that were introduced by the Reagan Administration. Since 1985, Shattuck has released two other statements criticizing the government's tight controls over the release of scientific data...
Spence said that Reagan Administration actions such as preventing technical papers from being read at international conferences have had a "chilling effect" on science...
Although not entirely successful, the Reagan philosophy paid off in some areas, such as Afghanistan, where American arms supplied to rebels persuaded the Soviets to end an occupation of the war-torn nation, says Adam B. Ulam, Gurney professor of history and political science...
Mostly, however, Reagan benefitted from internal Soviet politics that paired him with a reforming leader. As Ulam puts it, "I think Mr. Reagan--to use such unscientific term--was terribly lucky...