Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must take the Constitution at the original intention of its framers, lest we are forced to accept an usurpation of power [by the judiciary]," said Solicitor General and Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence Charles Fried, in a discussion moderated by former Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald...
Still worse came in the spring of 1969, when the students seized University Hall, Harvard's administrative nerve center, vandalized the offices and spilled confidential files all over the floor. Crimson Editor James Fallows, | later a speech- writer for Jimmy Carter, reported encountering "the great stone-faced Nathan Pusey, (who) tried to conceal his utter astonishment at the passions tearing up his university." Pusey called in the police, plus 200 state troopers. With a four-foot battering ram, they smashed down the main door; chain cutters, sledgehammers and billy clubs did the rest...
...contest for the U.S. Senate nomination, Democratic Representative Wyche Fowler defeated Hamilton Jordan, chief of staff in Jimmy Carter's White House. But Fowler faces a formidable rival in November, when he tries to unseat conservative Republican Senator Mack Mattingly...
...that the tax code should promote industrial modernization, a prime example of manipulating the code for purposes other than raising revenue. George McGovern pledged some tax reforms during his 1972 campaign for the presidency; those promises were buried under Richard Nixon's 49-state landslide. Four years later Jimmy Carter railed at a tax system he called a "disgrace to the human race." Among other things, he cemented the three-martini lunch in American folklore. (By making only 80% of business entertainment deductible, the new bill in effect transforms that fabled meal into a 2.4-martini lunch.) As President, though...
...seemingly intractable problems tend to resort to symbolic gestures. As he wondered how to pay for the Great Society and the Viet Nam War all at once, Lyndon Johnson roamed the White House halls turning off lights to save electricity. In the depths of the energy crisis, Jimmy Carter turned down the thermostat in the Oval Office and put on a sweater. So, as the national furor over the drug crisis continues to grow, it was not altogether startling to hear Ronald Reagan offer to take a urine test to determine if he has consumed any narcotics lately...