Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also need to attack this problem before it enters our society. It is time for government to place greater emphasis on patrolling our borders to combat the daily and illegal influx of drugs. Rollbacks in funding to the Coast Guard, like those that occured during Reagan's tenure, are no longer justifiable...
...been a favorite hunting ground for the military. Caught between adolescence and adulthood, at an age when possibilities seem boundless but money often is not, graduating seniors are ideal candidates for recruitment into the armed services. With federally sponsored job-training and financial-aid programs virtually dismembered by the Reagan Administration, the military has sought to fill the void by stressing its willingness to outfit men and women for high-tech careers and provide aid for higher education. Says Captain George Karpinski, an Army recruiter in the Atlanta area: "Seventeen- and 18-year-olds are our primary market...
Baker's most surprising slip last week was not realizing that Reagan-era ethical laxity is Out and more rigid Bush-era ethics are In. Four days after a story broke that he owned shares (worth $7 million in 1981 and an undisclosed amount today) in Chemical Bank New York Corp., which has huge loans to Third World nations, he announced that he would sell them. As Reagan's Secretary of Treasury, a qualified blind trust (whose owner knows what assets it contains, though he has no say in when they are bought and sold) was deemed sufficient. But after...
...also wrestling with difficulties posed by the Soviet Union's decision to nearly triple the number of exit visas it will grant its citizens this year. Washington has long prodded Moscow for just such an opening to emigres. To accommodate the new Soviet arrivals, the Reagan Administration last year transferred 7,000 slots previously reserved for Asian immigrants to Soviet refugees, outraging advocates for Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants...
...clock was going "cuckoo" even before the trial began. Late last week defense, prosecution and judge were locked in a quarrel over material that Sullivan may want to use right off the bat. He claims that secret documents show that Ronald Reagan and other members of his Administration -- among them Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, CIA Director William Casey and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General John Vessey -- "personally and directly" took part in arranging deals to have other countries aid the Nicaraguan contras at a time when help from...