Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the Reagan administration, we learned that not only did a White House spokesman routinely invent quotes and attribute them to the President, but that America's chief executive could not say "It certainly is a pleasure to have you here" without looking at notecards...
...Labor Department's program started, ironically enough, under the Reagan Administration. In 1981 Labor began to promote use of an expanded version of its General Aptitude Test Battery as a basis for referring job applicants to private employers. But civil rights activists were leery. Minorities score lower in general on the tests than whites; exams have served in the past as a ruse to filter out black or brown applicants. So race norming was added as a way to make the results "color-blind." Eventually, 35 states adopted the Labor Department program in some measure. Until recently, the Equal Employment...
Five years ago, the Reagan Justice Department suddenly denounced the GATB practice, saying it was reverse discrimination and thus illegal under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Such practices do seem to contradict both the letter and the spirit of Title VII, the basic equal-employment law, which was designed to foster color blindness. Race norming also runs head-on into traditional American notions of advancement based on individual achievement...
...scheme, called Health Access America, which includes most of the familiar nostrums. It would guarantee universal care through a combination of expanding government programs, enlarging tax subsidies and requiring employers to supply insurance. The A.M.A. has come a long way from the days when it hired Ronald Reagan to campaign against Medicare as socialism. Now an editorial in the A.M.A. Journal bizarrely blames the absence of universal coverage on "long-standing, systematic, institutionalized racial discrimination." Yet the A.M.A.'s reform plan is strangely reticent about cost control, without which fewer people, not more, will have access to decent health care...
...abortion issue as the sort of emotional question that extracts votes and campaign funds from true believers, they unleashed a venomous public argument. That debate heated up again last week in the wake of a highly divisive Supreme Court decision. The Justices upheld a federal regulation, conceived by the Reagan Administration three years ago to assuage conservative constituents, that bans discussion of abortion in federally funded health clinics...