Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...signals that hostages might be seized by revolutionaries in Iran were not properly weighed by Jimmy Carter and his aides. Marine officers in Beirut apparently did not give enough credence to the evidence available that terrorists might mount an attack with a truck full of high explosives, even if it meant blowing themselves up. Both events were too far from American experience...
...years he has left the most shadowy of paths. It was rumored, but never proved, that he tried to bribe high officials in the Nixon and Carter Administrations. According to Justice Department officials, he consorted with Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. In August, Columnist Jack Anderson placed him in the Nicaraguan bush. A month later, NBC reported that he was masterminding a major drug-smuggling operation out of the Bahamas. But Financier Robert Vesco, who fled the U.S. in late 1972 after being indicted on charges of swindling mutual-fund investors out of $224 million, has not surfaced publicly since...
...public policy, especially in the last eight years, has neither been consistent nor persistent. President Carter attempted overtures and embargoes, all of which failed, while President Reagan has concentrated on rhetoric and containment. Both followed a policy of switches Carter went forward on SALT and backwards on Afghanistan and grain, while Reagan has vacillated between calling the Soviets an "evil empire" and attempting negotiations, demanding toughly that the requirements of treaties be observed while at the same time revamping embargoes by keeping economic ties sullenly open. Meanwhile, the high-level means of diplomacy in the United States have dwindled...
...compromise was for outside groups to arrange debates between major-party candidates, which were then covered by the networks as "bona fide news events," a designation that placed them outside the equal-time requirement. Notable examples: the televised debates between Ronald Reagan and President Jimmy Carter in 1980 and between Carter and President Gerald Ford in 1976, which were sponsored by the League of Women Voters. Now network or station-sponsored debates will themselves be considered news events...
...held dozens of investor seminars on the divestiture, all run by veteran staffers bristling with law degrees and M.B.A.s. But at one session last month, "I don't know" was a tellingly frequent response from, among others, panelist Alfred Kahn, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board under Jimmy Carter. An expert on the telephone industry, Kahn presided over the deregulation of U.S. airlines in the late 1970s and is now a professor of political economy at Cornell. Says Ulric Weil, telecommunications analyst for investment bank Morgan Stanley: "No honest observer can claim to know where this is all going...