Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important how many weapons we have--what's important is use and the factors affecting use," said Nye, a State Department official in the Carter Administration...
...other problems will flow more from what did not happen than from what did. A prolonged crisis that the U.S. seemed impotent to break could have sapped his ability to govern effectively as thoroughly as the seizure of the hostages in the Tehran embassy eventually undermined Jimmy Carter's authority. The relatively quick release of the TWA 39 not only averted that danger but enabled Reagan to turn his attention back to some pressing domestic concerns that had threatened to get out of hand. And at least for now he would probably have the ear of a grateful public...
...advance, the encounter might exacerbate distrust and discord. For that reason, the U.S. would have preferred a summit with preordained results in the form of a major new agreement, such as the treaties limiting strategic arms signed at the Nixon-Brezhnev meeting in 1972 or at the Jimmy Carter-Brezhnev summit in 1979, the most recent encounter between a Soviet leader and a U.S. President...
...upset of incumbent Republican William Clements. Nationally, Hispanic registration is increasing more slowly: the census counted a rise of 800,000, to a total of 3 million, between the 1980 and 1984 elections. Hispanics generally are liberal on economic issues, and as late as 1976 they gave Jimmy Carter 81% of their votes. But as many as 35% pulled the lever last year for Ronald Reagan, partly because they admired his leadership qualities and emphasis on conservative social values. Cuban and Nicaraguan refugees, in addition, often express an anti-Communism as vehement as the most right-wing Republicans...
...from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton. In a career mixing business and Government service, he became a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (1961-63, during which time he sought out and thanked the official who had cleared his entry), was Jimmy Carter's Secretary of the Treasury (1977-79) and is now chief executive officer of the Detroit- , based Burroughs Corp. He became a U.S. citizen in 1952. "One of the unique things about this country is that it's just as much or more of an honor to say, 'My father...