Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN President Bush announced his drug plan on September 5, he called for an all-out war on drugs. In the nationally televised speech, Bush moved away from the simplicity of Reagan's "Just say no" philosophy and included more emphasis on decreasing local demand for drugs...
Friday was supposed to be a big day for Samuel Pierce, Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Pierce had agreed to testify before the House subcommittee investigating charges that his department had a soft spot for well-connected Republicans who garnered huge fees for helping developers land multimillion-dollar federal housing contracts. But Pierce, known as Silent Sam, decided to live up to the name. He informed the panel, headed by California's Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos, that he was canceling his appearance. He said his newly hired lawyers needed more time to prepare...
...writers are more comfortable with them too. Carvey's Bush impersonation galvanized the troupe into some sharp political satire on the '88 campaign. In one inspired sketch during the Iran-contra affair, President Reagan (ah, that's Phil Hartman) puts on his familiar bumbling act in public, then turns into a whipcracking boss in private, directing every detail of the covert operation, down to computing interest on the money stored in Swiss bank accounts. The show's movie parodies have also had some shrewd twists: Carvey, for example, playing Dustin Hoffman's autistic savant in Rain Man -- who turns...
...from the South. Places like Cleveland and Detroit suffered a dwindling of the well-paid manufacturing jobs that had pulled generations of unskilled workers into the middle class. Many whites, fearing black government, fled to the suburbs, taking their taxable incomes with them. The financial bind worsened under the Reagan Administration's cutbacks in urban aid. "It's like getting the prize and seeing that the prize is hollow," says Linda Williams, policy analyst at the Joint Center for Political Studies in Washington...
Cuts in federal student aid during the Reagan years have also taken a toll, forcing schools to contribute more from their own coffers. Like other labor- intensive businesses, colleges feel the bite of rising fringe benefits. At Brown, for instance, outlays for employee health-care premiums have quintupled since 1986. Then there is the need, fostered by feverish admissions competition, to provide more and better student services -- such as tennis courts and state-of-the-art gyms...