Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronnie Reagan, what could...
...international banking consultant: "The people who will probably be searching for it have a very limited knowledge of what money movement is all about. How is a third-rate employee of the Justice Department going to dissect the entire financial system to pinpoint the drug money correctly?" During the Reagan years, the budgets of agencies in charge of ctaching financial cheats failed to keep pace with the changing world of money manipulation. Even IRS agents are largely unprepared for the task of tracking transactions that can involve four or five banks, several shell companies and two or more currencies...
Since the dawn of the Green movement, critics have argued that environmentalists exaggerate the dangers that humans pose to planet earth and understate the resilience of nature. Historically, the naysayers have had a key influence on policy: they weakened the original Clean Air and Clean Water acts, and Reagan officials James Watt and Anne Burford nearly destroyed the Environmental Protection Agency. But a worsening environment has put the naysayers on the defensive as they struggle to explain ever dirtier air, moribund forests and lakes, oil spills, desertification and the ozone holes over the poles...
Despite this trend, the Reagan Administration slashed aid to international family-planning programs, and President Bush has not restored it. He recently vetoed a $15 billion foreign aid package because he feared that a tiny $15 million targeted for the U.N. Population Fund might help support abortion services in China. Getting birth-control information and devices to the 2.5 billion people beyond the present reach of family-planning programs will require $8 billion annually, a $5 billion rise from current levels. In 1989 the U.S. contributed $245 million to such programs, less in real terms than in 1979. Unless America...
...country also has a moral responsibility to do so. After all, the U.S. consumes a disproportionate amount of the world's resources and has inflicted more than its share of environmental damage. But perhaps the strongest argument for American leadership on the environment is an idealistic one. Ronald Reagan loved to sing paeans to America's unique role as "a city on a hill" -- an inspiring model of democracy and free enterprise. Now that much of the world seems to be moving in a democratic direction, the U.S. should set its sights on an even loftier, more urgent mission: saving...