Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mike Boddicker (1-0) blanked the Indians on two hits for five innings before giving way to Mike Smithson after a two-run homer by Joe Carter in the sixth. Smithson finished the game to pick up his second save...
...increased accuracy of Soviet ICBMs has gradually threatened the land-based leg of the triad, which consists of 450 Minuteman IIs, each carrying a single warhead; 500 Minuteman IIIs tipped with three warheads; and 50 more modern MX's, each with ten warheads. The Administrations of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan considered 30 or so ideas for rendering U.S. ICBMs less vulnerable to Soviet attack. But as a report co- authored by former Defense Secretary Harold Brown noted, all the proposals were rejected because they failed the basic criteria of being "militarily effective, affordable and politically acceptable...
...rail, truck, bus and airline service, along with the breakup of the Bell system. These changes permitted corporations to abandon service or increase rates in thousands of small towns. H.E. ("Ned") Valentine, owner and editor of the Clay Center Dispatch (circ. 3,800), finds the outcome ironic: "Both Presidents Carter and Reagan espoused small-town American values. Both were admired for it. But Carter's deregulation program, amplified by eight years of Reagan, has taken its toll here...
...increase in revenues predicted by supply-siders ever materialized. Net domestic savings available for investment averaged only 1.9 percent of GNP under Reagan, compared to 7 percent during the 1970s. Real fixed investment by corporations increased by 2.6 percent per year under Reagan, compared to 7.1 percent under Jimmy Carter. As for revenues, they plummeted by 10 percent--$66 billion...
Putnam's past scholarship should also help him consolidate the curriculum and guide the school in a more academic direction. Putnam is a renowned expert on political elites and Italian regional politics. His expertise landed him a job on the National Security Council during the Carter Administration...