Word: rejectionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In El Salvador, Quayle did have a substantive message about the Bush Administration's policies toward Central America. Like Vice President Bush in 1983, Quayle warned Salvadoran military officers and rightist politicians that the recent upsurge in political murders must be reversed if the U.S. is to continue pumping $545...
"I'll check the Common Casting [brochure] to see if anything really interests me, but I doubt it," she said before the start of this semester. "I'm probably just afraid of rejection."
But her mother does not see rejection in the tea leaves.
A House vote will require coordination with the Senate, which voted 95-5 for a more complicated rejection measure last Thursday that included a plan to roll back the increase for Congress and the executive branch officials.
Reagan's approach to the political process has stressed appearance more than governance. Never accepting the blame is a cornerpiece of the Reagan political legacy. While the buck always stopped with Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan seems content to feign ignorance and absent-mindedness time and again, letting his hand-picked...