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...said the three main goals of his presidency would be to defend freedom, strengthen the family and to fight a war on poverty that "I think...
...elite. The Great Society eventually became institutionalized, even when the nation's economic growth flattened out and the middle class began losing ground. That dissonance helped to create Ronald Reagan. Americans bought the Reagan solution: cut welfare programs, or at least slow their rate of increase, to strengthen defense and give people more to spend through tax cuts. Says Daniel Yankelovich, the public opinion analyst: "They were uneasy about doing so because they suspected that millions of poor people would get hurt, but they accepted the Reagan approach because they agreed that something was badly amiss with the liberal theory...
...which began considering the AMC purchase last summer, estimates that it missed out on $100 million worth of potential tax write-offs on the deal on Jan. 1 because the advantages were eliminated by the reform legislation. Nonetheless, Iacocca was determined to buy AMC. Said he: "((The merger will)) strengthen both of us in what's already become a tough market...
Ambassador Cooper countered by declaring hissupport for SDI as a defensive mechanism toprevent nuclear attack. He added that the SovietUnion engaged in similar research and that the twonations should cooperate to strengthen defensivetechnology...
...Washington the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on South Africa urged that the U.S. press its allies to strengthen economic and political . sanctions against South Africa. That was not what the Reagan Administration had expected to hear from its own committee. The White House set up the twelve-member panel of specialists from business, diplomacy, labor and politics last November in hopes of deflecting congressional pressure for stiff sanctions. Now nine members of the group, including former IBM Chairman Frank Cary and onetime Transportation Secretary William Coleman Jr., indicated in a 72-page report that the Administration's policy...