Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...times, a self-inflicted competitive disadvantage," Quayle declared at the outset. What followed was a somewhat pedestrian recital of recommendations for reforming the legal system from the President's Council on Competitiveness, which the Vice President chairs. Many of these ideas represent pro-business leftovers from the Reagan Administration. But Quayle's speech is likely to be remembered for the string of rhetorical questions he asked in conclusion: "Does America really need 70% of the world's lawyers? Is it healthy for our economy to have 18 million new lawsuits coursing through the system annually? Is it right that people...
...friends are insisting that Casolaro, 44, might have been murdered in connection with a book he was writing. In recent months he had been looking into the eight-year legal battle between the Justice Department and Inslaw, Inc., a computer software company based in Washington. Inslaw executives charge that Reagan Administration officials pirated their software, designed for law-enforcement purposes, then sold it. Casolaro believed the Inslaw affair was just part of a much deeper tangle of intrigues that he called "the Octopus." They included the Iran-contra arms deals and operations of the renegade bank B.C.C.I...
Temperature's rising on late night TV, and the young fellow with the thermometer -- oh, it's a microphone -- is Ron Reagan, former ballet dancer, occasional journalist and permanent son of the 40th President of the U.S. Gipperphiles will tune in to THE RON REAGAN SHOW to see the host twit Kitty Kelley, "who we know applies only the highest journalistic standards to her work." Gipperphobes will be pleased to hear Ron bad-mouth the policies of the Reagan Administration. He treads the tightrope in Jimmy Stewart style, his aw- shucks ingenuity tempered with wry skepticism. The kid needs both...
...vanished while waiting in a go-between's home to meet representatives of Islamic Jihad. For years no faction claimed to be holding him, and nothing was heard of him. Many Western officials privately concluded he had been killed, possibly because he was suspected of working with the Reagan Administration in the arms-for-hostages swap with Iran...
Whether it is staking out Gary Hart's bedroom, probing the background of an alleged rape victim or pondering the number of months that passed between marriage and childbirth for the wives of Ronald Reagan and televangelist Pat Robertson, the press almost always strikes some people as having gone too far. For others, whose political cause is being advanced either intentionally or inadvertently, the deplorable can suddenly seem delightful. But the real question is not just who benefits from a media decision. Rather, it is whether the media behave thoughtfully and ethically. If news organizations, in the zeal to keep...