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george bush sr. |
the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 and the 43rd vice president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. |
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televangelism |
an evangelical preacher who appears regularly on television to preach and appeal for funds.defi |
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deficit |
the amount by which something, especially a sum of money, is too small |
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ronald reagan |
Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. |
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supply-side economics |
economic growth can be most effectively created by lowering taxes and decreasing regulation, by which it is directly opposed to demand-side economics. |
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new federalism |
political philosophy of devolution, or the transfer of certain powers from the United States federal government back to the states. |
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mikhail gorbachev |
The eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was General Secretary of its governing Communist Party from 1985 until 1991 |
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lebanon |
republic in west Asia, on the Mediterranean. |
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contras |
a member of a guerrilla force in Nicaragua that opposed the left-wing Sandinista government 1979–90, and was supported by the US for much of that time. It was officially disbanded in 1990, after the Sandinistas' electoral defeat. |
