Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan's "kitchen" remark drew immediate political fire, but the President did not stop there. He offhandedly seemed to shift the blame to previous Administrations for the third devastation of U.S. installations in Beirut within 18 months, all of which cost a total of 260 American lives. Responding to a question about embassy security from a student in a campaign rally at Ohio's Bowling Green State University, Reagan said, "We're feeling the effects today of the near destruction of our intelligence capability in recent years, before we came here-the effort that somehow seemed...
More anger greeted State Department representatives when they appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to support a sudden new request for security funds at U.S. embassies around the world. Democratic Congressmen accused the Administration of belatedly seeking the money as an attempt to shift blame for the lax security in Beirut to Congress. They were upset too by Under Secretary of State Ronald Spiers' contention that the $366 million sought by the department was not really needed and that $110 million was all that could be spent this year. Committee Chairman Dante Fascell, a Florida Democrat, called this...
Others are skeptical about an enduring shift. "The youth vote is reacting to what it perceives as a healthy economy and to the mythic leadership of Reagan," says Democratic Pollster Hart. "It is not a bellwether for the future." Murray Fishel, a Kent State University political scientist, notes that young voters are more liberal on social issues than Reagan or his party. "Students do not support the Republican platform on issues like the environment or the Equal Rights Amendment," he says. "I think the shift is toward Reagan and not Reaganism." But whether fickle or faithful, the enthusiasm of young...
...Burger Court may be the conservative counterpart of the 1962 Warren Court-the year it turned the corner. A swing to the right has been in the works for a decade, but the momentum has quickened in the most recent term." Even several of the Brethren acknowledge the shift. Last month Justice Harry Blackmun told a private gathering at the Cosmos Club in Washington, B.C., that...
That's quite a shift for the Harvard senior and California native, who with a top 20 national collegiate ranking a year ago led the Crimson to its first ever Ivy title and who seemed destined for even bigger things this year...