Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nikita Khrushchev in the U.S. in 1959, as well as the subsequent summit talks between Khrushchev and John Kennedy in Vienna, were "disastrous," said Dobrynin, because both sessions had been inadequately prepared. By contrast, he continued, the summit meetings during the '70s, involving Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, had been essentially successful because they were well planned and the outcomes known in advance. Thus, according to a senior U.S. official, considerable time last week "was spent on making sure that both sides understood which items we would go to work on and how we would proceed toward...
...Banker David Rockefeller, which in turn led to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, to fugitive Financier Robert Vesco and to a cocaine connection that involved, among others, assorted Bulgarians and a former President of Colombia who was a close friend of former President Jimmy Carter's. Clear...
Anorexics, on the other hand, are the victims of very isolating problems and do not often reach out for help. "Anorexics tend to become more and more withdrawn," says Rosalind J. Carter '86, an EPO counselor...
...consumers responded bitterly, some of them by hoarding fuel and getting into fights at filling stations. Eventually an effort to conserve took hold. At one point, President Carter declared conservation "the moral equivalent of war." Consumers turned off unnecessary lights, rode bicycles, dialed thermostats down to 65 degrees F and drove 55 m.p.h. instead of 70 m.p.h. Meanwhile, rising prices made it economical for utility companies to convert to coal-fired and nuclear-powered plants and for other businesses to install new energy-efficient equipment. Some homeowners even began heating their houses and pools with solar panels. Result...
...didn't work. And inevitably, as we've seen time and time again--in President Carter's handling of the Iranian hostage crisis, for example--a failed strategy becomes a moral wrong...