Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doubt that their party takes them seriously and bring to Mondale's banner legions of zealous female campaign workers. Women already are a majority of the electorate; they cast 6 million more votes than men did in 1980. Reagan took 46% of their vote, to 45% for Jimmy Carter, but that was much smaller than his plurality among men, and since then every poll has shown Reagan running considerably worse among females than males...
...Turkeys out!" As her words rang through the House chamber, she dissolved in nervous giggles and had to ask the chair for an extension of time to compose herself and go on. With an eye to conservatives at home, she has consistently opposed large cuts in the military. When Carter favored a mobile MX missile, she voted for it; when Reagan backed a silo-based MX, she voted against it. In the past year, as her political ambition widened, she has tried to plug the gaps in her knowledge, visiting Central America and the Middle East. In a remark that...
...unafraid of seeming both feminine and strong, a lot of half-baked, half-conscious bias should slough away. "Kennedy proved that Catholics had finally arrived in American society, that they could win any office, run any corporation, achieve any social position," says Stuart Eizenstat, a Presidential Adviser in the Carter Administration. "This shows that women are now full-fledged and equal members of society, that women can enter at every level of American life. The role of women will never be the same again...
President Reagan has consistently opposed mandatory passive restraints. In 1981, Drew Lewis, Dole's predecessor as Transportation Secretary, killed a Carter Administration order requiring them in all new cars by 1984. The Supreme Court, however, overturned that ruling and directed the Transportation Department to review the issue yet again. Although Dole says that Reagan approved her plan "as the most prudent way to go," the White House has tried to distance the President from the actual decision. "The court had us boxed in," said a White House aide. "What we did was as little as we could get away...
...others) or chat with strangers if the wait is long enough to begin forming a bond of shared experience, as at a snowed-in airport. But people tend to do their waiting stolidly. When the sound system went dead during the campaign debate in 1976, Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter stood in mute suspension for 27 minutes, looking lost...