| 1991-01-01 | Leonard Leo Joins Federalist Society, Begins Strategic Judicial Talent Pipeline Leonard Leo · Federalist Society | 2 | |
| 1991-01-01 | Leslie Wexner granted Epstein power of attorney in 1991; later alleged 'at least $46M' misappropriated Jeffrey Epstein · Leslie Wexner · The Limited · +2 | 5 | |
| 1991-01-01 | Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal purchases Trump yacht during financial crisis Prince Alwaleed bin Talal · Donald Trump · Trump Organization · +1 | 4 |
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| 1991-01-01 | Sean Combs joins Uptown Records under Andre Harrell, beginning rapid rise Sean Combs · Andre Harrell · Uptown Records · +1 | 4 | |
| 1990-11-29 | Immigration Act of 1990 Expands Legal Immigration, Creates Diversity Visa Lottery George H.W. Bush · Edward Kennedy · Alan Simpson · +1 | 4 |
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| 1990-11-15 | Clean Air Act Amendments Pass with Industry-Preferred Market Mechanisms Over Direct Regulation George H.W. Bush · Environmental Defense Fund · Edison Electric Institute · +3 | 6 |
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| 1990-10-29 | Jesse Helms 'White Hands' Ad Weaponizes Affirmative Action Against Black Senate Candidate Jesse Helms · Harvey Gantt · Alex Castellanos · +2 | 5 | |
| 1990-10-01 | Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly Begins Lobbying for Kashmiri American Council, Later Revealed as Pakistani ISI Front Paul Manafort · Black Manafort Stone and Kelly · Kashmiri American Council · +3 | 6 |
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| 1990-07-25 | Keating Lincoln Savings Civil RICO Fraud Indictment Charles H. Keating Jr. · Charles Keating III | 2 |
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| 1990-05-01 | Putin's Transition from KGB to St. Petersburg Government: Early Regulatory Personnel Shift Vladimir Putin · Anatoly Sobchak · KGB Personnel · +1 | 4 | |
| 1990-04-25 | Treasury Creates FinCEN, Centralizing Financial Surveillance of American Banking Nicholas Brady · Department of the Treasury · Financial Crimes Enforcement Network · +1 | 4 |
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| 1990-03-27 | Milwaukee Parental Choice Program Creates First Publicly-Funded Private School Vouchers Governor Tommy Thompson · Representative Polly Williams · Bradley Foundation · +1 | 4 |
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| 1990-02-16 | Reagan Testifies "I Don't Recall" Repeatedly in Iran-Contra Deposition Ronald Reagan · John Poindexter | 2 |
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| 1990-01-01 | CNP Membership Includes Reagan Cabinet Officials - Meese and North Join Elite Network Council for National Policy · Edwin Meese · Oliver North · +1 | 4 |
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| 1990-01-01 | Epstein Purchases Property Near Mar-a-Lago Jeffrey Epstein · Donald Trump | 2 | |
| 1990-01-01 | Federal Reserve Begins Systematic Dismantling of Glass-Steagall Restrictions Federal Reserve Board · Alan Greenspan · JP Morgan & Co. · +1 | 4 |
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| 1990-01-01 | Hoover Institution Organizational Profile: Leveraging Stanford Prestige for Conservative Policy Legitimacy Hoover Institution · Herbert Hoover · Stanford University · +6 | 9 |
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| 1990-01-01 | S&L Crisis Lessons Documented But Ignored: Stage Set for 2008 Repeat Financial regulators · U.S. Congress · Banking industry · +1 | 4 |
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| 1990-01-01 | Trump Taj Mahal Casino Opens with $675 Million Junk Bond Debt Crisis Donald Trump · Carl Icahn · Marvin Roffman · +1 | 4 |
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| 1990-01-01 | Union Avoidance Consulting Industry Emerges as $400+ Million Annual Business Union avoidance consultants · Corporate employers · Labor Management Institute · +1 | 4 |
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| 1989-12-20 | U.S. Invades Panama to Capture Former CIA Asset Manuel Noriega George H.W. Bush · Manuel Noriega | 2 |
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| 1989-09-25 | Christian Coalition Founded - Grassroots Religious Right Electoral Infrastructure Pat Robertson · Ralph Reed · Christian Coalition | 3 |
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| 1989-08-09 | FIRREA Signed: $160 Billion Taxpayer Bailout of S&L Industry Fraud George H.W. Bush · U.S. Congress · Resolution Trust Corporation · +1 | 4 |
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| 1989-05-25 | Reagan HUD Scandal Exposed, Samuel Pierce Influence Peddling Investigation Samuel Pierce · Deborah Gore Dean · James Watt · +2 | 5 | |
| 1989-05-04 | Oliver North Convicted of Iran-Contra Felonies, Later Overturned on Immunity Oliver North · Gerhard Gesell · Lawrence Walsh | 3 |
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| 1989-05-01 | Trump Demands Death Penalty in $85,000 Ads Against Central Park Five Donald Trump · Yusef Salaam · Korey Wise · +3 | 6 |
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| 1989-04-14 | Lincoln Savings Collapse: $3.4 Billion Taxpayer Bailout Lincoln Savings and Loan · American Continental Corporation · Charles Keating · +3 | 6 |
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| 1989-04-14 | Senate Ethics Committee Opens Keating Five Investigation John McCain · John Glenn · Alan Cranston · +3 | 6 |
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| 1989-03-24 | Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Triggers Corporate Campaign to Limit Pollution Liability Exxon Corporation · American Petroleum Institute · U.S. Supreme Court · +2 | 5 |
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| 1989-03-04 | Eastern Airlines Strike Leads to Corporate Liquidation, Frank Lorenzo's Union Destruction Model Eastern Airlines · Frank Lorenzo · International Association of Machinists · +2 | 5 |
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| 1989-02-09 | KKR's $31 Billion RJR Nabisco Leveraged Buyout Establishes Private Equity Wealth Extraction Model KKR · Henry Kravis · Ross Johnson · +1 | 4 |
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| 1989-01-20 | Reagan Leaves Office: Domestic Corruption and Policy Failure Legacy Ronald Reagan · George H.W. Bush · American public | 3 |
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| 1989-01-01 | Executive Outcomes Founded in South Africa: First Modern Private Military Company Conducts Combat Operations Eeben Barlow · Executive Outcomes · Tony Buckingham · +2 | 5 |
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| 1989-01-01 | Federal Reserve Expands Section 20 Powers to Include Corporate Debt Securities Federal Reserve Board · JP Morgan & Co. · Section 20 subsidiaries | 3 | |
| 1989-01-01 | Global Climate Coalition Formed to Coordinate Industry Climate Denial Campaign ExxonMobil · Shell · Chevron · +5 | 8 |
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| 1989-01-01 | S&L Industry Collapse: Over 1,000 Institutions Failed by 1989 Savings and Loan institutions · Federal Home Loan Bank Board · Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation · +1 | 4 |
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| 1988-12-01 | Silverado S&L Collapses: Neil Bush Conflict of Interest Costs Taxpayers $1 Billion Neil Bush · George H.W. Bush · Silverado Savings and Loan · +3 | 6 |
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| 1988-11-23 | IBP Settles Record OSHA Case for Systematic Injury Underreporting at Dakota City Meatpacking Plant IBP Inc. · Occupational Safety and Health Administration · United Food and Commercial Workers · +1 | 4 |
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| 1988-11-18 | Anti-Drug Abuse Act Creates "Aggravated Felony" Category, Merging War on Drugs with Deportation Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress · Department of Justice · +1 | 4 |
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| 1988-09-21 | Bush Campaign Deploys Willie Horton Ad Weaponizing Racial Fear of Black Criminals George H.W. Bush · Lee Atwater · Roger Ailes · +4 | 7 | |
| 1988-08-12 | Duncan Campbell's New Statesman Article First Publicly Names ECHELON Surveillance Network Duncan Campbell · Margaret Newsham · Government Communications Headquarters · +2 | 5 |
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| 1988-08-04 | WARN Act Passes with Corporate Loopholes, Toothless Plant Closing Protection U.S. Congress · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · +1 | 4 |
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| 1988-08-01 | Rush Limbaugh National Syndication Begins - Conservative Talk Radio Ecosystem Created Rush Limbaugh · Edward F. McLaughlin · EFM Media Management · +1 | 4 |
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| 1988-08-01 | Wise Use Movement Founded as Industry-Funded Anti-Environmental Grassroots Campaign Ron Arnold · Alan Gottlieb · Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise · +4 | 7 | |
| 1988-06-29 | Beck Decision Enables Workers to Withhold Union Dues for Political Activity, Weakening Labor Resources U.S. Supreme Court · Communications Workers of America · Harry Beck · +1 | 4 |
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| 1988-06-29 | Morrison v. Olson: Scalia's Lone Dissent Articulates Unitary-Executive Theory That Becomes Movement Doctrine U.S. Supreme Court · William Rehnquist · Antonin Scalia · +3 | 6 |
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| 1988-01-01 | Maxwell Acquires Macmillan Publishers, Expanding US Media Empire at Massive Cost Robert Maxwell · Macmillan Publishers · Berlitz International · +1 | 4 |
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| 1988-01-01 | S&L Crisis Prosecutions: 1,000+ Bankers Convicted, Contrasts Sharply with 2008 Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Office of Thrift Supervision · +1 | 4 |
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| 1987-12-01 | Keating Lincoln Savings Irvine Fraudulent Bond Scheme Charles H. Keating Jr. · Lincoln Savings and Loan Association | 2 |
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| 1987-11-18 | Iran-Contra Minority Report: Cheney, Addington Lay Groundwork for Unitary-Executive Doctrine That Shapes Bush II and Trump II Dick Cheney · David Addington · Michael Malbin · +5 | 8 |
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| 1987-10-23 | Senate Rejects Robert Bork Supreme Court Nomination 42-58, First Ideological Rejection in Nearly a Century Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · Edward Kennedy · +6 | 9 |
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| 1987-09-16 | Senate Resolution Acknowledges Haudenosaunee Influence on Constitution During Bicentennial Celebrations U.S. Senate · Haudenosaunee Confederacy · Six Nations | 3 |
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| 1987-08-04 | Reagan FCC Abolishes Fairness Doctrine in 4-0 Vote, Eliminating Balanced Coverage Requirements for Broadcasters Dennis R. Patrick · Federal Communications Commission · Ronald Reagan · +5 | 8 | |
| 1987-05-06 | CIA Director William Casey Dies Before Testifying on Iran-Contra Role William Casey · Ronald Reagan · Richard Secord | 3 |
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| 1987-05-05 | Televised Iran-Contra Congressional Hearings Begin, Riveting Nation Oliver North · John Poindexter · George Shultz · +1 | 4 |
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| 1987-04-01 | Federal Reserve Approves Section 20 Subsidiaries for JP Morgan, Citicorp, and Bankers Trust Federal Reserve Board · JP Morgan & Co. · Citicorp · +3 | 6 |
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| 1987-04-01 | Keating Five Senators Pressure FHLBB to Halt Lincoln Investigation Alan Cranston · Dennis DeConcini · John Glenn · +5 | 8 |
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| 1987-02-26 | Tower Commission Report Released, Criticized as Whitewash of Iran-Contra Ronald Reagan · John Tower · Edmund Muskie · +2 | 5 |
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| 1987-01-01 | AIDS Death Toll Reaches 25,000: Reagan Administration Inaction Continues Ronald Reagan · AIDS patients · LGBTQ community · +2 | 5 |
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| 1987-01-01 | Cato Institute Organizational Profile: 'Libertarian' Cover for Corporate Deregulation Agenda Cato Institute · Charles Koch · Ed Crane · +5 | 8 |
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| 1987-01-01 | Heritage Foundation Budget Reaches $14.3 Million - Scale of Corporate Policy Investment Heritage Foundation · Joseph Coors · Richard Mellon Scaife · +2 | 5 |
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| 1987-01-01 | Olin Foundation Law and Economics Programs Expand to Elite Law Schools John M. Olin Foundation · William E. Simon · Stanford Law School · +3 | 6 |
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| 1987-01-01 | Philanthropy Roundtable Founded - Conservative Donor Coordination Infrastructure Philanthropy Roundtable · Institute for Educational Affairs · Koch Network · +1 | 4 |
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| 1987-01-01 | Wackenhut Corrections Wins First Federal Immigration Detention Contract in Aurora, Colorado Wackenhut Corporation · Wackenhut Corrections Corporation · George C. Zoley · +3 | 6 |
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| 1986-11-25 | Attorney General Meese Reveals Iran-Contra Scandal to Public Edwin Meese · Ronald Reagan · Oliver North · +1 | 4 |
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| 1986-11-21 | Oliver North Begins Systematic Destruction of Iran-Contra Evidence Oliver North · Fawn Hall · John Poindexter | 3 |
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| 1986-11-06 | Immigration Reform and Control Act Grants Amnesty to 3 Million, Employer Sanctions Fail Ronald Reagan · Alan Simpson · Romano Mazzoli · +1 | 4 | |
| 1986-10-27 | Anti-Drug Abuse Act Establishes 100-to-1 Crack-Cocaine Sentencing Disparity Ronald Reagan · U.S. Congress | 2 |
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| 1986-10-22 | Koop Releases AIDS Report After Five-Year Delay: Public Health vs Politics C. Everett Koop · Ronald Reagan · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | 3 |
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| 1986-10-22 | Reagan Signs Tax Reform Act of 1986 - Top Individual Rate Cut from 50% to 28%, Corporate Rate Slashed from 46% to 34%, Tax Brackets Reduced from 16 to 2 Ronald Reagan · Dan Rostenkowski · Bob Packwood · +4 | 7 | |
| 1986-10-22 | Tax Reform Act of 1986 - Corporate Lobbying Secures Massive Rate Reductions Ronald Reagan · Corporate lobbyists · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · +1 | 4 |
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| 1986-10-21 | Congress Passes Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Codifies Third-Party Doctrine for Digital Communications Robert Kastenmeier · Patrick Leahy · Ronald Reagan · +1 | 4 |
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| 1986-10-01 | Corrections Corporation of America Goes Public on NASDAQ at $9 Per Share, Wall Street Bets on Mass Incarceration Corrections Corporation of America · Thomas W. Beasley · Nasdaq · +2 | 5 |
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| 1986-09-26 | Reagan Vetoes Apartheid Sanctions, Congress Overrides in Historic Rebuke Ronald Reagan · Desmond Tutu | 2 |
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| 1986-04-07 | EMTALA Passes as Unfunded Mandate, Enabling Insurance Industry to Shift Emergency Care Costs to Hospitals Ronald Reagan · American Hospital Association · Health Insurance Association of America · +1 | 4 |
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| 1986-02-25 | Meese Announces West Publishing Deal: Presidential Signing Statements Enter U.S. Code Legislative History Edwin Meese · Ronald Reagan · Samuel Alito · +2 | 5 |
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| 1986-01-01 | State Policy Network (Madison Group) Founded - State-Level Think Tank Coordination Thomas A. Roe · American Legislative Exchange Council · Heritage Foundation · +2 | 5 |
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| 1985-12-04 | NSC Running Shadow Foreign Policy Through McFarlane and Poindexter Robert McFarlane · John Poindexter · Oliver North · +1 | 4 |
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| 1985-10-02 | Rock Hudson Dies of AIDS: Reagan Forced to Finally Acknowledge Crisis Rock Hudson · Ronald Reagan · Nancy Reagan · +1 | 4 |
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| 1985-09-04 | Inslaw Files Bankruptcy Accusing DOJ of Stealing PROMIS Software for Intelligence Use William Hamilton · Inslaw Inc. · Department of Justice · +3 | 6 |
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| 1985-08-20 | First Secret Arms Shipment to Iran Initiates Iran-Contra Scandal Ronald Reagan · Robert McFarlane · Oliver North · +1 | 4 |
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| 1985-08-17 | Hormel Strike Broken Through Permanent Replacement, Ending Pattern Bargaining in Meatpacking Hormel · United Food and Commercial Workers Local P-9 · Austin Minnesota workers · +1 | 4 |
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| 1985-05-01 | Carl Icahn TWA Hostile Takeover - Asset Stripping Blueprint Carl Icahn · Trans World Airlines · American Airlines | 3 |
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| 1985-03-15 | Opus Dei Members Enter Reagan Administration Ronald Reagan · Opus Dei Members · Republican Party | 3 |
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| 1985-01-31 | Idaho Legislature Overrides Veto to Impose Right-to-Work Law, Devastating Labor Movement Idaho Republican Party · Idaho Legislature · Governor John Evans · +3 | 6 |
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| 1985-01-01 | Bradley Foundation Transformation - Coordinated Conservative Infrastructure Funding Michael S. Joyce · Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation · Heritage Foundation · +4 | 7 |
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| 1985-01-01 | Carl Icahn Phillips Petroleum Hostile Takeover Attempt Carl Icahn · Phillips Petroleum · Michael Milken · +1 | 4 |
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| 1985-01-01 | CNP Establishes Three-Times-Yearly Meeting Schedule at Secret Locations Council for National Policy | 1 |
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| 1985-01-01 | Council of Conservative Citizens Founded by Former White Citizens' Councils Members to Continue Segregationist Agenda Robert B. Patterson · Lester Maddox · Gordon Lee Baum · +2 | 5 | |
| 1985-01-01 | Maxwell Begins Distribution of Backdoored PROMIS Software to KGB and China Robert Maxwell · KGB · Chinese Military Intelligence · +3 | 6 |
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| 1985-01-01 | Murdoch Strategic Media Empire Expansion and U.S. Media Regulatory Navigation Rupert Murdoch · John Kluge · Marc Rich | 3 |
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| 1985-01-01 | PROMIS Software Creates Global Intelligence Surveillance Network Through Maxwell Distribution Robert Maxwell · US Intelligence · Soviet KGB · +3 | 6 |
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| 1985-01-01 | Ronald Perelman Receives $750 Million Drexel Blind Pool for Corporate Acquisitions Ronald Perelman · Michael Milken · Drexel Burnham Lambert | 3 |
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| 1985-01-01 | Trickle-Down Legacy: Reagan Policies Make Inequality Structural Feature Ronald Reagan · American workers · Wealthy elite · +1 | 4 |
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| 1984-12-03 | Bhopal Disaster Kills Thousands, Exposes Union Carbide Safety Negligence and Regulatory Failure Union Carbide Corporation · Warren Anderson · Indian government · +2 | 5 |
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| 1984-10-30 | Cable Communications Policy Act - Media Deregulation and Consolidation Enabled Ronald Reagan · Barry Goldwater · Federal Communications Commission · +1 | 4 |
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| 1984-10-12 | Boland Amendment Explicitly Prohibits All U.S. Funding for Contras Edward Boland · Ronald Reagan | 2 |
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| 1984-09-24 | Hatch-Waxman Act Grants Pharma Patent Extensions While Creating Loopholes to Block Generics Orrin Hatch · Henry Waxman · Ronald Reagan · +1 | 4 |
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| 1984-07-01 | Maxwell Acquires Daily Mirror for £113 Million, Expanding Media Empire Robert Maxwell · Mirror Group Newspapers · Reed International · +2 | 5 | |
| 1984-06-01 | CIA Director Casey and Oliver North Create "The Enterprise" -- A Private Intelligence Operation Template William Casey · Oliver North · Richard Secord · +3 | 6 |
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