Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Star Wars. Bush and several of his top advisers view with skepticism Reagan's expensive vision of a high-tech shield from enemy missiles. The 1990 budget agreement cuts funding for the program to $4.6 billion from Reagan's proposed $5.9 billion...
...Contras. Reagan hailed the rebels fighting Nicaragua's Marxist government as "the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers" and sent them overt and covert military support. Bush and Secretary of State James Baker, however, immediately abandoned the nigh hopeless goal of supplying them with more guns and bullets and, instead, struck a deal with Congress to provide continued food and housing assistance, pending elections promised by Nicaragua's junta...
Arms Control. At the Reykjavik summit in 1986, Reagan stunned many of his advisers and allies by embracing the elimination of all nuclear weapons, a move that would expose Western Europe to the Warsaw Pact's overwhelming numerical superiority in troops and tanks. Bush has expressed far less enthusiasm for nuclear-weapons reductions and has suggested they may have to be conditioned on cuts in Soviet conventional forces...
...Budget. Reagan relished sending Congress what one senior aide called "a go-to-hell budget" laden with domestic-spending cuts patently unacceptable to the Democrats. Bush declared at his Inauguration, "The American people didn't send us here to bicker." He drew up a less contentious proposal and, by managing to persuade congressional leaders to accept his overly optimistic economic assumptions, struck a deal by mid-April...
...Environment. Reagan, who was famous for asserting that trees cause pollution, cut back on environmental protection. After declaring in his campaign, "I am an environmentalist," Bush has appointed a respected conservationist to head the EPA; called for the elimination of chlorofluorocarbons, which harm the ozone layer; promised action on a clean- air package and restrictions on acid rain; and proposed adding a mile per gallon to federal mileage standards for motor vehicles...