Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like Mondale's V.P. choice a lot more than I did Carter...
...when Bert Lance, the Georgia politico who was expected to help the Democratic ticket in the South, announced he was resigning his three-week-old job as general chairman of the campaign. On the eve of the party's convention last month, Mondale had tapped Jimmy Carter's former Budget Director, who had been indicted and then cleared of charges of bank fraud, to head the Democratic National Committee. When a storm of protest blew up over the choice, Lance was shifted to an ill-defined political post. The nominee made no attempt to dissuade the disheartened Georgian...
...stages. Progress toward that end is now moving swiftly. Researchers in Geneva and Melbourne have been so successful in identifying antigens of the merozoite that they plan to begin animal tests of the vaccine by the end of the year. A gametocyte vaccine is being developed by Dr. Richard Carter at NIH, but much work remains to be done. An experimental vaccine for all three stages may be only a decade away, according to Pathologist Sydney Cohen of Guy's Hospital medical school in London. "If it is very effective," he says, "malaria eventually will be eradicated like smallpox...
...quibble with the editors' rather broad definition of an expert. Richard Nixon is included ("When the President does it, that means it is not illegal," 1977). Also Jimmy Carter ("Because of the greatness of the Shah, Iran is an island of stability in the Middle East," 1977). Also Ronald Reagan, often. But so are laboratories full of more justly certified savants like Lord Kelvin, the respected British physicist ("X rays are a hoax," circa 1900), and Dr. Linard Williams, medical officer to the Insurance Institute of London, who said in 1932: "If your eyes are set wide apart...
...traditional New Deal industrialism of the Democratic Party? And more seriously, the purported neoliberals have yet to show the political muscle--or even the instincts--to turn their ideas into workable policies. These weaknesses have dogged "neoliberalism" since pundits first began using the word in the aftermath of the Carter presidency, and they have yet to be adequately addressed since--problems suggested, perhaps unwittingly, in Randall Rothenberg's The Neoliberals: Creating the New American Politics...