Word: reaganized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With its votes, Congress rejected raises proposed by a presidential commission and endorsed by then-President Ronald W. Reagan. Senators and representatives would have seen their salaries increased from...
...describing the backround for the event, the staff only partially heeds its own calls for fairness. The staff describes the 1980 s as a decade of "insensitivity and hostility to minority concerns" and condemns the Reagan Justice Department for seeking to roll back affirmative action. We agree with this assessment and remain critical of the Justice Department's failure to continue actively prosecuting civil rights cases...
Last spring, Hope drew attention when she was nominated by then-President Ronald Reagan to replace outgoing federal judge and unsuccessful U.S. Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork. Hope's appointment was opposed by congressional Democrats, who wished to postpone the selection in the hopes that a Democratic presidential victory would allow the appointment of a liberal...
...raises, recommended by a presidential commission, had been supported by President Bush and by ex-President Ronald W. Reagan. The commission, formed in 1967, meets every four years to recommend pay levels...
...legacies Ronald Reagan bequeathed to George Bush, few are as vexing as Nicaragua. Stripped of all its rhetoric, the Reagan Administration's policy was entirely geared to overthrowing the Sandinista regime. Put simply, it made no sense to negotiate with the Marxist-Leninist Sandinistas when the only deal the U.S. wanted was their abdication. And besides, they couldn't be trusted to live up to any agreement. Eight years, $250 million and one contra % army later, the Sandinistas are still in power. It was one of Reagan's starkest foreign policy failures, producing neither a military victory nor a diplomatic...