| A | B |
|---|
| entitlement program | federal program guaranteed to provide benefits to particular groups |
| affirmative action | to give special consideration to minority groups that had been the victims of discrimination |
| reverse discrimination | favoring a minority group over another group on the basis of race or gender |
| conservative coalition | alliance of business leaders , middle class voters and fundamentalist Christians |
| Reaganomics | economic policy that espouses 1)budget cuts 2) tax cuts 3) increased defense spending |
| supply-side economics | theory that says that tax cuts increase money for investment and savings, thus stimulating the economy |
| deregulation | cutting back of federal regulation on industry |
| pay equity | change in the traditional pay scale; an attempt to get better pay for women in the workplace |
| Sunbelt | the South and Southwest regions of the US |
| Rustbelt | Northeast and North Central regions of the US |
| glasnost | Gorbachev's policy of openness |
| perestroika | Gorbachev's policy of restructuring the Soviet economy and society |
| trickle-down economics | aka supply-side economics |
| smog | smoke plus fog |
| glass ceiling | an upper limit to professional advancement, esp. as imposed upon women, that is not readily perceived or openly acknowledged |
| stagnation | an economic period in which the economy is not developing nor advancing |
| ICBM | intercontinental ballistic missile |
| Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty | agreement that eliminated two classes of nuclear weapons; INF Treaty |
| Grenada | a Caribbean island nation 100 miles north of Venezuela |
| Contras | Nicaraguans who opposed the communist government in Nicaragua |
| Sandinistans | socialists/communists of Nicaragua whom the Contras fought to unseat |
