Sentences with phrase «reagan administration»

«Reagan Vs. Cities and States: The 20th Century Battle over South African Apartheid» tells the story of how cities and states joined the fight against apartheid in South Africa and won even as the Reagan administration and special interest groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) sought to suppress those efforts.

«The Reagan administration was generally skeptical about costly environmental rules, but with respect to protection of the ozone layer, Reagan was an environmentalist hero.

And yet the Supreme Court's temporary stay of the administration's Clean Power Plan — the last decision of global consequence of the right - leaning court on which Justice Antonin Scalia had sat since the Reagan administration — underscores just how far the United States remains from its climate goals.

He served as a senior agricultural analyst for the U.S. Department of State for between 1980 and 1988 under the Reagan administration, «where he was responsible for assessing the foreign - policy implications of food and farming developments worldwide.

It is a conservative think tank that was initially founded during the years of the Reagan administration to advocate funding for Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative — the «Star Wars» weapons program.

The last time we tried a «flat tax» was during the Reagan administration.

This week, members of the Republican old guard — including two architects of the Reagan administration — proposed that the United States should adopt a carbon tax.

The situation began to change in the 1980s, as the Reagan administration labeled environmental regulations a burden that needed to be eased.

(Cap - and - trade was, in fact, another market - based policy favored the Reagan administration.)

Cost benefit like that done by the Reagan administration does not work all that well when the cost distributions of climate change are that fuzzy.

When a barrel of oil went from $ 32 to $ 11 and the Reagan administration cut funding for energy efficiency programs, the superinsulated, airtight house trend went into hibernation.

It was much the same story after tax cuts during the Kennedy administration, the Reagan administration and the Bush Administration.

President Jimmy Carter had installed the first set of panels in 1979, but they were removed during the Reagan administration.

The same can be said of the Reagan administration's beliefs.

In contrast, efforts to reduce vehicle oil consumption were put in the deep freeze from the Reagan administration until the end of the George W. Bush administration and the approach to CO2 was limited to calls for voluntary actions — calls that went unneeded by the auto industry.

For example in 1987, the Reagan administration Interior Secretary Donald Hodel suggested that that the US government should encourage encourage the use of sunglasses and sunscreen, rather than violating the administration's philosophy of minimal government regulation.

Dave Slade had tried to add social sciences to the Department of Energy global change budget in 1980, but the incoming DOE secretary for the Reagan Administration (president of a dentistry school from South Carolina, as I recall) stopped that (why would DOE be studying the potato famine in Ireland as an analog for the impacts of climate change on countries)-RRB- and shifted responsibility for the climate change research effort away from Dave Slade and the Office of Health and Environmental Research to the Office of Basic Energy Sciences — so focus on the hard sciences was the lesson.

The anti-environmental narrative has been carefully constructed, beginning with the first Reagan Administration, and to great effect.

Abdalati also noted that the emphasis on NASA's role studying Earth dates from the Reagan administration, during which the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Act of 1958 was amended in 1985 to add as an objective «the expansion of human knowledge of the Earth» along with «phenomena in the atmosphere and space.»

«Redlining» and the politically calculating biases of the Reagan administration's War on Drugs further debilitated this community.

But it is likely for the economy and profits to grow faster in an environment where regulation is lower (for an example, consider the first term of the Reagan Administration.

2) Relatively stable debt levels until the middle of the Reagan Administration, and then a rapid increase over the next 23 years.

schemes to a debate on how the Reagan Administration affected the national debt.

In the 1980s, the Reagan administration passed the Tax Reform Act of 1986.

During the Reagan Administration, the Tax Reform Act of 1986 was signed that eliminated tax deductions for most consumer loans with the exception of mortgage interest.

Shrugging off pressure from the Reagan administration to choose a bid from an American company, Fox and his team awarded the rights to the first private cellphone network to an upstart company that later became one of the three dominant players in Canada's wireless sector: Rogers.

This takes me back to the early days of the Reagan Administration.

I really am going to be positive in this book, instead of dwelling on the negative aspects of turning 50, such as that you get wrinkled and forgetful and achy, and you gain weight merely by watching food commercials, and the warranties are expiring on all your remaining teeth and internal organs, and your idea of a big night is to stay up late enough to see the previews for Letterman, whose actual show you have not watched since the Reagan administration.

Patti Davis, keenly remembered for being labelled as a somewhat tempestuous First Daughter during the Reagan administration, is one such author.

Chris has covered technology and media since the latter days of the Reagan Administration.

The new model needs to appeal to current owners, including some who have been driving a Defender since the Reagan administration, while luring in a new generation of buyers, including some who have never set foot inside the original car (pictured).

«With record high transit ridership, now is not the time to retreat from President Obama's vision of an «America built to last» by eliminating a guaranteed funding source for public transportation that has been in place since the Reagan Administration,» said Secretary LaHood.

As a life long Republican, and a Chrysler dealer during the Reagan Administration, I took a more Democrat stance when it became apparent Chrysler would slide into insolvency without government help.

The current era of corporate education reform began with the 1983 publication of the Reagan administration's report A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Education Reform, prepared by a committee of prominent professors, politicians, teachers, and business executives.5 Not only did the report attack many of the equity - minded federal education reforms that preceded it, A Nation at Risk also manufactured a narrative of public education in crisis, steeped in the language of Cold War military paranoia: «If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war,» the authors wrote.

She lead Americans for Prosperity and its predecessor in Texas for 20 years and had served in the Reagan Administration as White House Liaison to the US Department of Education.

Finn, a former assistant secretary of education in the Reagan administration, said the quality of charter schools across the country varies widely, and he predicted that the results would make those overseeing charters demand more in the way of performance.

And it was George Shultz in the Reagan Administration who signed the Carnegie - drafted U.S. - Soviet education agreements with Gorbachev.

In the 1980s, the Reagan administration's «A Nation at Risk» report prompted states to get more serious about elevating their expectations for students.

This may have a certain intuitive logic and hearkens back the Reagan administration's «A Nation at Risk» which lamented how many of America's teachers were among the poorest students in college.

Since the Reagan administration's «A Nation at Risk» report pronounced that schools across the country were failing, every president has touted a new plan to close the racial academic achievement gap: President Obama installed Race to the Top; George W. Bush had No Child Left Behind; and Clinton pushed Goals 2000.

In 1983, the Reagan administration sponsored the National Commission on Excellence in Education, which produced a document entitled «A Nation at Risk.»

This report commissioned under the Reagan Administration highlighted the drastic underperformance of our nation's schools and called attention to the threat of lost international competitiveness.

It started with A Nation at Risk, the Reagan administration report that portrayed the nation's schools as having fallen a long way from some standard they had formerly met.

Chester Finn, Jr., President Emeritus at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, a conservative think tank, and a former Assistant Secretary of Education in the Reagan Administration, understands why many districts stick with the testing model but thinks policies need to be flexible.

Finn, who held a senior education post in the Reagan administration, said he shares Ravitch's pessimism about the record of education reform.

In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education, created by the Reagan administration, issued the report, «A Nation at Risk,» which contained alarming conclusions about the inadequacies of the American education system.

The effort, in turn, builds upon the decades - long efforts of standards and accountability activists within the school reform movement — including conservative outfits such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and its president, Checker Finn — to improve the quality of curricula in schools; this began in the 1970s with the work of southern governors and chambers of commerce, accelerated during the Eighties with the Reagan administration's release of A Nation at Risk, and supported by Ronald Reagan's successor, George Bush, during his tenure as president.

During the last few decades, particularly since the Reagan administration, the right has waged war on teachers and their unions.

Washington — The Reagan Administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let stand a federal appeals - court ruling that requires colleges whose students receive federal aid to certify that they do not discriminate on the basis of sex.

Harrisburg, Pa — Pennsylvania Gov. Richard Thornburgh's attempt to establish a state education block grant, modeled after the Reagan Administration's block grants, has touched off a heated partisan political controversy, deepened the rift between the Governor and the state's largest teachers» organization, and led to demands that Governor Thornburgh fire the chief state school officer.