Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With those stern words last week, Ronald Reagan ordered his Cabinet to find new ways of cutting as much as $15 billion out of next year's budget and a stunning $74 billion in 1983 and 1984. And with those demands, the President opened Chapter 2 in the history of Reaganomics, the Administration's bold plan to alter fundamentally the policy directions of the past half-century and to put the U.S. back on a course of steady, noninflationary growth after years of stagnation and inflation...
...most spectacular current reason for this hostility, of course, is Reagan's stern action in firing striking members of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers' Organization from their Government jobs. Not that PATCO is winning any popularity contests in the labor movement these days-it was one of the few unions to endorse Reagan and rarely respects job actions by other workers. But most labor leaders have given the controllers' strike rhetorical support because they fear that the Administration's actions will fan a union-busting spirit among state and local governments, whose employees are joining unions...
...congressional battles are part of a far larger campaign, a many-faceted crusade in which Helms and other right-wing social activists are pressing to remake the nation in their own image. Helms' America would be a land where certain stern Christian principles prevail and free enterprise is enshrined, where abortion is outlawed, classrooms ring with the sound of children at prayer and Darwin is just a theorist, where school buses rust quietly in their garages, and sex and violence are banished from television screens and library shelves, where men are men and women know their place, which...
...Violent crime is pervasive. We can't afford to indulge in long philosophical discourses. We must act immediately." With that stern warning, Associate Attorney General Rudolph Guiliani last week accepted the 192-page report of the Administration's Task Force on Violent Crime. Set up last March and chaired by former Attorney General Griffin Bell and Illinois Republican Governor James Thompson, the eight-member panel recommended a posse of reforms designed to stem the national crime spree...
...closely identified with the program of austerity that her enemies have caustically dubbed it "Thatcherism" -a campaign to revive the economy and curb inflation by following a stern policy of tight money and cutbacks in government spending. Even when the unemployment rate for young Britons rose to 34% and the demand for jobs became one of the causes of the riots in the major cities, she insisted that she would not compromise. But last week, as mobs still rioted in Liverpool on the eve of the royal wedding, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher abruptly turned away from a key phase...