Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter released last week, the deans wrote that the current board, who were all appointed by former President Ronald W. Reagan, "are undermining the proper functions of the Corporation. "Under the corporation's charter, Reagan's board will serve until Bush appoints...
...given among experts for some time that part of the challenge to the U.S. and its allies is to bring global Communism in its decline to a soft landing rather than let it crash and burn. American politicians and statesmen have understood as much, at least in theory. Ronald Reagan spoke of Marxism as "inherently unstable" and doomed. But in the policies that went with this confident rhetoric, he, like his predecessors, concentrated on the task of matching Communism's strength and deterring its expansion, not on the more subtle and relevant dilemma of coping with the consequences...
...spasm of mudslinging was painful and messy, and certainly contained a measure of revenge for the earlier Democratic assaults on such Republicans as John Tower and Ronald Reagan's Attorney General Ed Meese. The atmosphere also suffered from the fact that minority whip Gingrich was leading the ethics charge. Gingrich early on admitted that an investigation of the Speaker was the G.O.P.'s chance to undo three decades of Democratic dominance in Congress...
...followers held 52 Americans captive in the U.S. embassy in Tehran from November 1979 to January 1981, thus dealing a severe blow to the re-election chances of Jimmy Carter. Then, in what began as an effort to secure the release of American hostages held in Lebanon, the Reagan Administration became enmeshed in the Iran-contra affair, its gravest foreign policy blunder...
...feel they have little stake in preserving society. Boys often have trouble forging a masculine identity without one of the primary accompaniments -- a job. Teen unemployment is endemic among poor youth, running more than 40% in many communities. Meanwhile, welfare and social programs suffered drastic cutbacks during the Reagan era. Says Chicago psychiatrist Carl Bell: "Violence is the weapon of the powerless." Agrees Professor Leah Blumberg Lapidus of Columbia Teachers College in Manhattan: "It relieves boredom and makes a statement, like graffiti, that says, 'Notice...