Word: states
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often on to something important. Although some Americans voted for Reagan out of naked self-interest (people with six-figure incomes, for example) and others voted for him out of right-wing nuttiness or foolish patriotic euphoria, there aren't enough of these people to pull off a 49-state landslide. Reagan's message must have had some broader appeal...
Resistance to this recognition lay within ourselves. It was hard to recognize that we were in a dead-end street or that what we were protecting was not socialism but dictatorial state socialism...
...Jersey, Democrat Jim Florio has built a substantial lead over Republican Congressman Jim Courter in part by reminding voters of Courter's solid antiabortion voting record in Congress. Courter has been forced into a defensive retreat, promising that if elected he will keep his hands off the state's liberal abortion laws. "After Courter won the primary, he appeared to modify his position," admits John Tomicki, executive director of the New Jersey Right to Life Committee. "We believe he was uncomfortable with the issue." Kathryn Kolbert, an attorney for the A.C.L.U.'s Reproductive Freedom Project, puts it more bluntly...
Mitterrand's conversion came early in his presidency, during the mid-1980s. His initial attempts to bash the private sector through a program of nationalization and state planning, coupled with a wealth tax, drove capital out of the country and cost workers their jobs. But he learned to make compromises with conservative politicians and alliances with industrialists to promote investment and stimulate employment...
...This" was traditional socialism. Shortly after returning to office in January, Perez let most interest rates float and ended almost all price controls. He has now begun privatizing some state-owned industries. He calls the program el Gran Viraje -- the Big Shift -- or sometimes, with a smile, Pereztroika...