Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...During the Bicentennial celebrations, all sorts of Americans were surprised to find themselves feeling a frisson of harmless patriotic pleasure. Between June and September 1976, the surveys showed a 10% jump in the "state of the nation index," the fastest rise recorded by Yankelovich before or since. Carter's improbable, romantic victory sent spirits higher still, to a level not reached again until this year. But after his first year, the mood started to sour, declining further after the American embassy staff was imprisoned in Tehran...
...think we are witnessing a fundamental shift toward more positive attitudes about American institutions." Two-thirds of the respondents in a TIME-Yankelovich survey last month felt that things were going "very well" or "fairly well" in the U.S. It was the most upbeat reading since the Carter honeymoon...
...have a wait-and-see attitude," he says. "It's easy to see flag waving during the Olympics, with all those medals and all. Patriotism was promoted during the Olympics. But do we have it because we feel it or because they tell us to feel it?" Hodding Carter III, State Department spokesman in the Carter Administration, believes that there is indeed a new swagger in the American walk but is not sure he approves. "Patriotism is back," he wrote last month in the Wall Street Journal, "as everyone seems fond of saying these days, and more power...
...Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford: "There is no evidence that we are moving toward a recession in the foreseeable future." Nor do the economists expect any upsurge in either interest rates or inflation that could hurt Ronald Reagan's campaign. Said Charles Schultze, who was President Carter's chief economic adviser: "It's virtually inconceivable that anything could happen now that would have a significant impact on the election...
Vermont Coach John Carter's squad, now also 2-0-1, succeeded in its primary objective of holding the Crimson to no more than one goal. His troops were less successful, however, in mounting any challenge of their own, and let Harvard successfully dominate the game...