Word: terme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...term Governor of Indiana before getting the HHS post, Bowen is not without political acumen, and he thought he had President Reagan's support for his new campaign. Not only has Reagan expressed sympathy for families with crushing medical burdens, he has also seen some of the consequences. Press Secretary James Brady, shot down by would-be Presidential Assassin John Hinckley, still needs considerable medical care, and his wife calls the costs for such care a "national problem crying for a solution." In the State of the Union message last February, the President formally asked Bowen "to address the problems...
...once strong U.S. companies become so vulnerable to raiders and foreign competition? The atmosphere of soul-searching gave rise in 1986 to several of the hottest business buzzwords of the 1980s. One was "corpocracy," meaning the Big Business equivalent of government bureaucracy. The Reagan Administration used the term in contending that many of corporate America's problems were of its own making. Richard Darman, the Deputy Treasury Secretary, stirred the debate in November, when he blasted big < companies' tendency to be "bloated, risk averse, inefficient and unimaginative...
...says, "I think this is the way of the future. Guanacaste is a demonstration of the fact that you can grow back a tropical forest if the community that lives around it comes to embrace it as a cultural resource. If we can have that happen over the long term, a lot of the problems of tropical conservation will be licked...
...announced his coming departure in September, has generated -- in financial circles at least -- all the excitement of a tight horse race. Last week a winner hit the wire: Bank of France Governor Michel Camdessus, 53. When he takes over next month as chief of the IMF, which provides short-term emergency loans to troubled nations, Camdessus will become perhaps the second most powerful moneyman in the world, after Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker...
...early age, Hall had two passions: diving and politics. The first earned him a silver medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics. The second was cultivated at home in Dayton, where his late father, Dave Hall, was mayor. Sam served one term in the Ohio legislature; his brother Tony is a liberal Congressman from Ohio who opposes Reagan's Nicaragua policy. According to Lawrence Hussman, an English professor who helped Sam chronicle his life story in an as-yet unpublished book, the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics was a turning point. "Sam feels very strongly about the Olympics...