Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...marriage, the second for both, unites two overachievers whose days are so crowded that it takes his-and-her secretaries to get them together for lunch. Linda, 38, the daughter of Freeman Gosden, who played Amos on the Amos and Andy show, was a deputy press secretary in Ronald Reagan's first presidential campaign. A quick study, she had risen to senior vice president for corporate affairs at Warner Amex Cable, a joint venture of Warner Communications and American Express, by the time she married Robinson in 1984. Two years later she launched Robinson Lake, which has since been acquired...
...though it happened every day," Hill explained. "But I went to work during certain periods knowing that it might happen." She spoke of her fear of being squeezed out of good assignments, losing her job, maybe even not being able to find any job at all within the Reagan Administration if she continued to resist Thomas' alleged overtures. At one point, she said, the stress she experienced from the tension of her relationship with Thomas caused her to be hospitalized for five days with acute stomach pains...
Bradley said he hoped that debate over the nomination in the full Senate would focus on the future need for "a new leader who has no association in any way with the abuses" of the Reagan administration...
...faulted the Reagan Administration for eliminating the funds for the Clean Water Act--a federal bill that would have given money to the states for water system improvements--thereby forcing the cost of repairs upon the state and local governments...
Thomas is just not qualified. He has served on the D.C. Court of Appeals for only one year--and written only one opinion in that position. Before that, he was a controversial administrator whose record proved only that he agreed with Ronald Reagan that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was a useless organization. Thomas is not much of a legal scholar--certainly not one of the nine best in the nation...