Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moment Jesse Orosco's final pitch landed safely in Gary Carter's glove, green grass began to brown and snow began to fall...
...only a day after Revlon's cease-fire, three more multibillion-dollar takeover bids hit the market. The Limited, a retail chain, teamed up with Real Estate Developer Edward DeBartolo to make a $1.8 billion offer for Carter Hawley Hale Stores, which operates Neiman-Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman. American Brands, a consumer-products conglomerate, made a $2.8 billion bid to take over a similar but smaller company, Chesebrough-Pond's. And Minnesota- based Corporate Raider Irwin Jacobs offered to pay about $4 billion to acquire Borg-Warner, a diversified company best known for its automotive products. The stocks of these...
Reagan's election was a reaction to the micromanagement style of Jimmy Carter, who made it his business to know everything from the fine print in the Pentagon budget to who was playing on the White House tennis court. Reagan, by contrast, has practiced a kind of Zen presidency: the less he worried and prepared, the more popular and effective he would...
...Every President must have his National Security Council or the equivalent," says David Aaron, an NSC deputy under Jimmy Carter. "A President always has the need for independent advice." But that same independence can be abused by officials who invoke the President's name too freely in winning concessions from other agencies, as North supposedly did. "I used to have a rule," says McGeorge Bundy, who served as John Kennedy's National Security Adviser. "You never say, 'the President wants' unless you are very clear about what he really wants." The wisdom of that rule has begun to sink...
...copes with its burgeoning scandal, pundits are + facing a minor but nonetheless sticky problem of their own: what to call it. Ever since Watergate, the suffix -gate has been used to label virtually any hint of governmental wrongdoing (from the Koreagate bribery scandal to Lancegate, the flap over President Carter's former Budget Director). News of secret U.S. arms shipments to Iran was initially dubbed, unsurprisingly, Irangate. But as the scandal has broadened, the nicknames have multiplied: Armsgate, Contragate, Budgate (for McFarlane), Northgate (for Oliver...