Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stretched from Murmansk in the far north to Sochi on the Black Sea. Last week Crowe was summoned to the Kremlin for an audience with Gorbachev. The Soviet leader used the occasion to compliment the man who had appointed Crowe Chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 1985: "Former President Reagan saw the way things should go and turned the situation in the right direction...
...Department of Energy owns the plants, and private corporations operate them. During the Reagan Administration, the report said, Energy Secretary John S. Herrington inadvertently encouraged unsafe practices with a "buddy bonus system" and a "mind-set" that rewarded production over safety. An unidentified executive who "allowed health and safety to deteriorate" received a big cash bonus, and was praised as an "outstanding manager and leader" by Herrington's Under Secretary Joseph Salgado...
Assessing these decisions, attorney Floyd Abrams, a free-speech specialist, said they constituted a "reassuring week for the First Amendment." Said he: "The court has been considerably more sensitive to First Amendment rights than to other civil-liberties claims. Some of President Reagan's appointees have been refreshingly libertarian in their approach...
What set the stage for a backlash was the deregulation of such industries as airlines and broadcasting. While the loosening of rules typically brought consumers lower prices and wider choices, the process reduced governmental monitoring of business. In its free-market zeal, the Reagan Administration cut the budgets and staffs of the Federal Trade Commission, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and other supervisory agencies. In a Yankelovich poll conducted for TIME this year, nearly 80% of the Americans surveyed said the Government sides too often with business when it comes to environmental issues...
...seems moribund. Despite appropriations of $17 billion over the past six years, there are no realistic prospects of deploying a Star Wars system for a decade. SDI has remained singularly unpopular in Congress, which has cut every White House request for SDI funding. This year Bush himself reduced the Reagan request from $5.6 billion to $4.6 billion, and Congress might slash even more...