Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five-man group favored a high tax but could not agree on the particulars. So each member sent a separate proposal to Carter. The differences revolve around the size and timing of the tax and how to distribute the projected $50 billion in revenues that it would collect. One popular idea is to rebate perhaps $40 billion to workers and employers in the form of lowered Social Security and income tax levies. Another suggestion involves using some $10 billion to help balance the fiscal 1981 federal budget...
...Even as Carter was telling 100 Congressmen at a White House buffet dinner last week that the idea of a stiff gasoline tax "is looking better and better," legislators were beginning to snipe at the idea. Said powerful Democratic Congressman Charles Vanik of Ohio: "Are you crazy? Fifty cents is out of the ballpark...
...mounting on Chase in Europe to reconsider and reverse the default. One reason: the bank apparently did not tell its European partners that Iran had asked for a transfer of its funds to pay the interest on the loan, but that this payment had been blocked by President Carter's freeze on Iranian assets one day before it was due. Some Europeans now charge that the U.S. banks are acting as mercenary scouts of the Carter Administration in its campaign against Iran and that they have stopped playing the banking game under the gentlemanly rules of prior consultation...
...court battles were fought every where, by all sides. In Paris, Iran's Bank Markazi sued the French subsidiary of Citibank to release $50 million in depos its frozen since Carter's order. In London, Bank Markazi sued for the release of $1.8 billion on deposit with the Bank of America there...
Supporters of Jimmy Carter have been calling her two-faced ever since she dumped the incumbent to support Edward Kennedy's quest for the presidency. Speaking cosmetically rather than politically, however, Chicago's Democratic Mayor Jane Byrne really is. The Windy City's feisty mayor is given to impromptu press conferences at which she appears without television makeup. Embarrassed by the bags beneath her eyes that looked particularly heavy under bright TV lights, Byrne, 45, slipped into a hospital over Thanksgiving for a facelift. Reappearing in public last week, the mayor said nothing about her operation...