Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These are not the only reasons young Americans have turned to the right. The oft-used argument that young voters go Republican because their only experience of Democratic leadership is Jimmy Carter is certainly valid, but it does not address our generation's serious problems, problems being brought to the fore by the manner in which we will indicate our generation's will come November...
...first debate. Otherwise Reagan has been able to float along, sounding broad themes, flexing the power of his office, and reinforcing his image as a strong leader. Rather than outline what he would try to do in the next four years, he contrasts his first-term record against the "Carter-Mondale" Administration. He asks voters, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" and boasts that the "misery index" (the rate of unemployment plus the rate of inflation) has dropped from 20% to 11% in his term...
...Carter Administration had practiced "unilateral disarmament." Toward the end of his term Jimmy Carter set a policy of raising military expenditures faster than the rate of inflation, though earlier he had canceled the B-l bomber and backed off the neutron bomb...
...other tony department stores. The onetime Du Pont accountant was on his way. Sales of Nipon's dresses (price: $100 to $2,000) this year are expected to reach $60 million, and he has collected a clutch of celebrity customers, including Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara Walters, Rosalynn Carter and Nancy Reagan...
...slight edge" Carter referred to was a 25-5 Crimson lead in shots-on-goal and a 21-2 margin in corner kicks...