Reagan

Despite the rhetoric, big government has actually grown under Reagan and Thatcher. The Friedmans consider why this is - and what we can do now to change it. 

James G. Watt, Secretary of the Interior (1981-1983) in Ronald Reagan s first term, provoked substantial controversy by stating publicly that trees cause significant amounts of air pollution. Based on your reading of this chapter, evaluate Watt s remarks. 

In addition, manufacturers obtained language allowing federal standards to preempt state efforts in most cases. Pursuant to this legislation, the Carter Administration proposed appliance standards in mid-1980, but was unable to issue a final rule before the Reagan Administration took over. 

The movement toward federal appliance efficiency standards stalled in the 1980s as the Reagan Administration, which opposed standards from an ideological perspective, began. That administration s approach was made evident by its refusal to finalize the DOE s 1980 standards proposal, and in 1983, by the issuance of a federal rule that determined that no standards were necessary. Both the delay and the no standard determination were challenged by NRDC, with the support of several large states, through the courts. 

The Bush Administration (1989-1993) had a similar free marketplace philosophy as Reagan, hut faced the daunting task of having to start directing billions toward cleaning up after forty years of neglect at the contaminated weapons complex, particularly the federal facilities at Savannah River South Carolina, Hanford Washington, and Rocky Flats Colorado. The cleanup plan was fourfold characterize and prioritize all waste cleanups at departmental sites, con-... 

The Clinton Administration (1993-2000) that followed was far more inclined to embrace environmental activism than Reagan or Bush, and far more likely to propose command and control solutions to energy and environmental problems. However, the Clinton Administration also realized the need to allow markets to work, to do otheiwise would result in some of the disastrous consequences of intervention policies used in the 1970s. 

U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the Strategic Defense Initiative, intended to shield the United States from nuclear attack. 

July. U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs Executive Order 12287, effectively decontrolling crude oil and refined petroleum products. 

Rahal JJ, Anderson J, Rosenberg C, Reagan T, Thompson LL (2004) Effect of interferon-alpha2b therapy on St. Louis viral meningoencephalitis chnical and laboratory results of a pilot study. 1 Infect Dis 190 1084-1087... 

Another example of Ra- Th isochron dating is provided by the study of Reagan et al. (1992) on phonolites erupted in 1984 and 1988 at Mt. Erebus (Antarctica). Glass-... 

Reagan MK, Volpe AM, Cashman KV (1992) and Th-series chronology of phonolite fractionation at Mount Erebus, Antartica. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 56 1401-1407 Reagan MK, Morris JD, Herrstrom EA, Murrell MT. (1994) Uranium series and beryllium isotope evidence for an extended history of subduction modification of the mantle below Nicaragua. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 58 4199-4212... 

Kamchatka TIMS TIMS TIMS Turner et al. (1998) Dosseto et al. (2003) Condomines and Sigmarsson (1993) Reagan et al. (1994) ... 

Clark SK, Reagan MK, Plank T (1998) Trace element and U-series systematics for 1963-1965 tephras from Irazii volcano, Costa Rica implications for magma generation processes and transit times. Geochim Cosmochim Acta 62 2689-2699... 

Herrstrom EA, Reagan MK, Morris JD (1995) Variations in lava composition associated with flow of asthenosphere beneath southern Central America. Geology 23 617-620 Hildreth W, Moorbath S (1988) Crastal contributions to arc magmatism in the Andes of Central Chile. Contrib Mineral Petrol 98 455-489... 

Reagan MK, Sims KW, Erich J, Thomas RB, Cheng H, Edwards RL, Layne G, Ball L (2003) Timescales of differentiation from mafic parents to rhyolite in North American continental arcs. J Petrol (in press) Regelous M, Collerson KD, Ewart A, Wendt JI (1997) Trace element transport rates in subduction zones evidence from Th, Sr and Pb isotope data for Tonga-Kermadec arc lavas. Earth Planet Sci Lett 150 291-302... 

Dorale JA, Gonzalez LA, Reagan MK, Pickett DA, Minrell MT, Baker RG (1992) A high-resolntion record of Holocene climate change in speleothem calcite from Cold Water Cave, northeast Iowa. Science 258 1626-1630... 

This facility design concept was not considered in White House reviews of reprocessing during the Ford and Carter Administrations, nor as an option for support by President Reagan, who had been elected on a platform to support reprocessing of commercial spent firel. The ERDA and the DOE had reassigned responsibilities for commercial fuel cycle to its Division of Reactor Development (later Office of Nuclear Energy) which supported pilot plant concepts of its national laboratories and rejected concepts based on successful experience and lessons learned from that experience. 

Mielke HW, Adams JL, Reagan PL, et al. 1989. Soil-dust lead and childhood lead exposure as a function of city size and community traffic flow The case for lead abatement in Minnesota. Environ Chem Health 9(Supp) 253-271. 

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