Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fetish of supply-side culture was one of the worst legacies of the Reagan years. Though the Great Communicator was frustrated in his attempt to abolish the Endowment in 1981, he made sure that more Government money went to military bands than to the entire budget of the NEA. Oom-pah-pah culture to , fit a time of oom-pah-pah politics. After all, who could say that the arts needed support outside the marketplace at a time when star orchestra conductors were treated like sacred elephants and the art market was turning into a freakish potlatch for new money...
...Ronald Reagan is generally regarded as the most popular President in recent history. But according to Washington photographers who sell pictures of people posing with life-size cardboard cutouts of the Presidents, George Bush has surpassed the Gipper. One day last week, for every 25 people who asked to pose with the Bush cutout, four opted for the cardboard Reagan...
...despite official warnings issued by Washington in January 1987 that in effect they are on their own. So long as the U.S. and its citizens venture forth freely in the world, they will be vulnerable to extortion by kidnapers. Trying to come to terms with that implacable fact, Ronald Reagan stumbled and Jimmy Carter fell...
Spurred on by their early successes, pro-Iranian extremists have continued taking hostages and killing members of the American military with relative impunity. Despite the tough rhetoric cultivated under former President Reagan, things have not gotten much better...
Military persuasion, though used intermittently, has in recent crises begun to bear fruit. Despite making little head-way with the hostages, the Reagan Administration successfully defended U.S. economic (oil and shipping) interests in the Persian Gulf by dramatically stepping up the presence of the Sixth Fleet there...