Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After eight years of Ronald Reagan, the Court now consistently leans to the right on issues like abortion, affirmative action and pay equity. As a result, those who espouse a liberal view are likely to be defeated if their case ever makes it to the high court...
...frustrated [that] the state's housing programs are paralyzed. On the federal level funding has been cut 80 percent during the Reagan years. There is nothing left except local action and local commitment," Barrett said...
...every White House briefing. Congress, like a hungry dog with a new bone, is jubilantly chewing on it. The question will echo down through George Bush's remaining years of stewardship and on into history unless he has some miracle up his sleeve or gets a little of Ronald Reagan's luck. So far, he has not had an oversupply of either...
...used quickly and decisively? It is one of the oldest and most difficult questions in the two centuries of the American presidency. Almost every occupant of the Oval Office has had to answer it at some time. In our age, Jimmy Carter hesitated on Iran and was dumped. Ronald Reagan's boldness in Libya and Grenada elevated his presidency...
...were not sure what was happening, but I felt something had to be done" was the way Gerald Ford explained his recapture of the cargo ship Mayaguez in the Gulf of Thailand in 1975. "Let's do it" was Reagan's simple command that sent F-14 pilots aloft on a risky mission in the Mediterranean that apprehended and forced down the Egyptian airliner carrying the hijackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro...