Word: carterized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...both the Carter and Reagan Administrations found it so difficult to listen to the voices of the past, to reach out for guidance to men and women experienced in the ways of this city, remains a mystery. There is much accumulated wisdom in these streets, and when properly refined and weighed, it can benefit any President...
Initial ideas for the traditional Class Day speaker included President Reagan, former President Jimmy Carter and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Sandra Day O'Connor, marshals said...
...robust dollar took seed precisely four years ago during the Carter Administration. At the 1979 annual meeting of the IMF in Belgrade, foreign moneymen told Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker that he had to do something to bolster the then sulking American currency. Volcker returned to Washington and three days later unveiled a strategy for curbing U.S. inflation and stopping the dollar's skid. The plan called for the Federal Reserve to keep extraordinarily tight controls over the growth in money, even if that meant sharply higher interest rates...
...observations of high schools across the nation, the report's author concluded that the best American high schools, which educate 10% to 15% of all students, are the world's finest. Says Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation and former U.S. Commissioner of Education under Jimmy Carter: "School is in a very real sense a mirror of its community. Tune and time again, we saw that community support or community conditions were shaping the school. So, in a very real sense, the report card on the school is a report card on the nation...
DIED. Ruth Carter Stapleton, 54, evangelist and practitioner of "inner healing," who was instrumental in the 1966 spiritual rebirth of her elder brother, former President Jimmy Carter; of pancreatic cancer; in Fayetteville, N.C. A self-described "catalyst for God," the ebullient, unordained born-again Christian minister suffered a severe depression in the late '50s after the births of her four children and a car accident. Crediting her recovery to God, she mixed prayer with psychology to heal troubled or afflicted believers. After she learned of her terminal disease five months ago, Stapleton refused conventional medical treatment, saying, "I have...