Word: states
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington was "the problem" when Reagan took office in 1981, it looks like a costly irrelevancy today. After almost nine years of the Reagan Revolution, Americans may wonder whether the Government -- from Congress to the White House, from the State Department to the Office of Management and Budget -- can govern at all anymore...
...remained relatively unaffected by Washington's retreat, the Republican strategy has paid off handsomely, most recently in Bush's 1988 election and his extraordinary 75% current approval rating in the polls. Making sure the Republican coalition stays intact seems to be the Administration's major priority. Secretary of State James Baker, asked to comment on Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell's criticism of Bush's tepid handling of the situation in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, replied, "The President is rocking along with a 70% approval rating...
...TIME poll last week indicated increasing, if still rather vague, doubts about the future. Moreover, signs of strain are beginning to show at the state and local levels. State officials generally find their constituents as opposed to new local taxes as they are to the federal kind, except, in several states, when a tax is earmarked for a specific need: schools, say, or roads...
...consequences of such government paralysis are most apparent in California, where the 1978 Proposition 13 ballot initiative sparked the antitax revolt that swept the country. Now, with the state government hobbled by tax restrictions and unable to respond to public pressure, citizen initiatives have mushroomed. California had 29 propositions on its ballot last year on matters ranging from limits on auto insurance to new tobacco taxes. William Zimmerman, who helps organize such voter initiatives, admits that they are not the best way to handle complex issues. But, he says, "if the alternative is no action, I'll take the flawed...
...alarmed at what they call the "Cubanization" of KVEA, which picks up much of its programming from Telemundo's operations center near Miami. "The programming does not reflect the linguistic, cultural and ethnic communities in which these programs are shown," complains Raul Ruiz, professor of Chicano studies at California State University at Northridge, who has led numerous small demonstrations in front of the station's Glendale offices during the past four months...