Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retired people, despite the pro-Mondale efforts of 83-year-old Congressman Claude Pepper. Said Stephen Purdy, 75, of Pensacola, explaining his vote for Hart: "I suppose that I would like to see a change, and wouldn't like to see a change in the Johnson, Mondale or Carter mold...
...issues with the people," he says, "though they seem to be issues with reporters." Has he tried to remake himself after a rigid and unhappy childhood? "What a lot of baloney!" he exclaimed in an interview with TIME last week. "Everybody's going to be psychoanalyzed. Jimmy Carter was, Richard Nixon was, George McGovern was. It's just part of the deal. But my childhood was as happy as one can be in not plush economic circumstances." He changed his signature, he explained, "to make it easier to read." (To make his Senate letterhead signature legible, Hart dropped...
Will he be able to take the pounding of the campaign? He has managed to control himself in the face of hostile questioning, but barely. He does not come off as self-righteous, as Jimmy Carter sometimes did. But he has not shown the capacity of his model, John F. Kennedy, to disarm critics with self-deprecation. J.F.K., for instance, defused the issue of his family's heavy spending in the 1960 election by telling his audience that he had received a wire from his father: "Dear Jack, Don't buy one more vote than necessary...
Critics on the committee have found Meese's memory troubling on the matter of memos addressed to him that referred to inside information from the Jimmy Carter campaign staff in 1980. The Judiciary Committee has received at least eight such papers from a house subcommittee that tried unsuccessfully to determine how the Reagan campaign team acquired documents used to prepare Carter for his 1980 debate with Reagan. Except for one of the memos he has been asked about, Meese has told the Senators that he has "no recollection" of having seen them...
...three years after Carter deregulated the industry, exploration and production have increased 115 percent and earnings have zoomed 147 percent. But mergers and acquisitions--the majority of which have been extremely unfriendly--have exploded 600 percent...