Sentences with phrase «reagan on»

October was first proclaimed Head Start Awareness Month by President Ronald Reagan on October 22, 1982.
The LA's website bears a beaming mugshot of Ronald Reagan on its front page.
Elsewhere, aphasiacs watched Ronald Reagan on television and were not fooled by his affect.
The Education Department was guaranteed $ 15.22 billion in fiscal 1984 under an appropriations bill signed into law by President Reagan on Oct. 31.
The Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act — named for the late chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee and signed by President Reagan on Oct. 19 — will give employers the opportunity «to assist educators in their task of modernizing curricula for rapidly changing technologies and to help design programs that equip students for actual job needs,» William H. Kohlberg,...
Yet he also sold Reagan on backing what would have been the country's most expensive scientific facility, the proton - bashing Superconducting Supercollider in Texas (a project Congress killed in 1993).
Gingrich said one of the keys to Trump's success is his ability to communicate through Twitter and other non-traditional means, calling him «the greatest new innovator of communication since (former President Ronald) Reagan on TV and maybe FDR.»
Someday, the iconic Internet president may emerge, dominating the medium like FDR on the radio and JFK and Ronald Reagan on television.
Seculars tend to vote Democratic at all levels, with 54 percent supporting Kennedy in 1960, but there have been exceptions to this pattern; in 1980, 68 percent voted for Ronald Reagan on the basis of short - term economic considerations.

Not exact matches

AT&T bet wrong, and Reagan's DOJ insisted on the break - up of the company.
WASHINGTON, Oct 9 - A top Senate Democrat on Tuesday said new tax revenues should go to reducing the federal deficit, not cutting tax rates, dismissing as «obsolete» a Reagan - era model of tax reform.
The most famous occurred on Air Force II during the 1984 presidential race, as Reagan and Bush were being challenged by the Democratic ticket of Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro.
Choosing marriage over a college degree or a career, she embarked on a course that would take her to the United Nations and China, the vice president's residence in Washington during Ronald Reagan's two terms as president, and the White House as first lady from 1989 to 1993.
Sullivan previously served on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals under appointments by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, respectively.
As «second lady» during the Reagan administration, Mrs. Bush focused on raising awareness for literacy.
CNBC's Courtney Reagan looks at the day's market action including the rally in energy, and the market back on track to Dow 20K.
After pausing briefly to urge Reagan to make sure Scotchguard is applied to the new cubicles, Musk points to some glimmering metal on the ceiling.
The Trump administration on Monday said it is considering selling Washington Dulles International Airport and Ronald Reagan International Airport along with other federally owned infrastructure.
A free - trade segment of his speech focused on his proposal for the «Reagan Economic Zone of Prosperity,» a vaguely - defined multilateral agreement that would promote free trade and punish the «cheaters,» particularly China.
But the Reagan administration took a different tack on antitrust law.
CNBC's Courtney Reagan reports on Nordstrom shares soaring on news that a privatization deal may close.
Reagan was a well - known actor before he became president, but he wasn't always watching his own films in the White House theater — that was only on special occasions like his birthday.
For Kennan, the Reagan era was not «Morning in America», but a time when «the annual spending of hundreds of billions of dollars on «defense» has developed into a national addiction.»
He was a staff economist on the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ronald Reagan from 1986 - 87, an adviser at the New York Fed from 1991 - 92 and 1995 - 97, and an assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury from 2002 - 03.
Sir Winston Churchill didn't just ask his countrymen to battle the Germans, he exhorted them to «fight them on the beaches... [and] fight them on the landing grounds...» Ronald Reagan was a master of this tactic too from his «Shining City on a Hill» to the Berlin Wall.
CNBC's Courtney Reagan reports some retailers are using shoppers» Wi - Fi phone signals to trace movements around their stores in an effort to gather data on how best to layout or display products.
Miller, nonexecutive chairman of AIG, said on CNBC that a Ronald Reagan - type overhaul is needed to get the nation back on track.»
During his first stint at USTR in the Reagan administration, Lighthizer employed similar tactics to win voluntary Japanese export restraints on steel and autos.
As The New York Times pointed out, the proposed attack «in some respects resembles the limited types that many presidents — Ronald Reagan in Grenada, Bill Clinton in Kosovo and even Mr. Obama in Libya — have launched on their own.»
In the early Reagan years, «you could practically write a contract on the back of a matchbook,» quips Jerry Lopez, CEO of Technautics (# 212), in Arlington, Va..
Many experts credit that development to the «war on drugs,» a series of tough criminal justice and drug policies that began under President Richard Nixon and continued under President Ronald Reagan.
President Donald Trump and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill believe that Bush - and Reagan - type tax relief would give the current economy a boost.
The top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee on Wednesday urged Congress not to make the same tax cut mistakes of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
The history of government welfare programs is overwhelmingly biased towards expansion; hence, President Reagan's quote about a government program being the closest thing to eternal life we will see on earth.
Yes Bill Clinton's presidency saw widening inequality on a par with Reagan's.
Washington used it regularly during the Reagan years, which meant that the US was unilaterally making decisions on global trade rather than consulting with the international community or working through a neutral arbiter.
Just last week, House Speaker Paul Ryan said lawmakers were putting the «finishing touches» on a new health care bill — one that reportedly might scrap protections for people with preexisting conditions — while Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin reassured Americans they can soon expect to see proposals for «the most significant change to the tax code since Reagan
Along the way, Mr. Reagan asserted repeatedly that his environmental record was better than generally recognized, and reporters repeatedly asked why, then, he had just appointed Anne M. Burford to an advisory board on oceans and the atmosphere.
On the other end is Jean - Luc Mélenchon, a socialist of such extreme views that he makes Bernie Sanders look like Ronald Reagan.
That year, as part of President Ronald Reagan's broad moves to deregulate financial markets, the SEC eased its rules to allow companies to buy their own shares on the open market.
Between 2001 and 2007, I appeared on Kudlow's various CNBC shows a number of times, and though he always struck me as highly intelligent, informed and accomplished — he served as Bear Stearns» chief economist and even advised President Ronald Reagan — it was clear he had a strong bias against gold.
In the 1980s, treasury secretary Don Regan said the first Reagan reform proposal was written on a word processor to signal the administration's openness to negotiation and radical alteration.
The economic gains and market returns that emerged during the Reagan Administration began from a starting point of 10.8 % unemployment, a current account surplus, and market valuations that - on the most historically reliable measures - were less than one - quarter of present levels.
We should all hope the Trump administration follows Reagan's approach on both tax policy principles and a commitment to bipartisan negotiation.
Reagan also used threats of tariffs to bring countries together to collaborate on currency issues with other countries for the 1985 Plaza Accord.
Decades later, when Congress passed the Tax Reform Act of 1986, a Reagan administration initiative, the new legislation largely eliminated tax deductions on interest from personal loans, but kept the MID in place, with the justification that it was an important tool for encouraging homeownership.
The dispute would not have occurred if the proposal I developed for President Reagan when I served as Senior Economist on his Council of Economic Advisers had been implemented.
President Reagan accused the country of cheating, echoing Trump's arguments of today, and imposed tariffs on some Japanese imports in 1987.
Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA): Tax legislation enacted in 1981 (and often referred to as the «Reagan tax cut») that significantly reduced income taxes on individuals and businesses.
I remember when I was a young lad, the talk on the Sunday morning circuit was that Ronald Reagan added $ 1.86 trillion to the debt over eight years, a 186 % increase from the $ 999 billion debt at the end of Carter's last budget.
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