Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cars be able to withstand a collision at 2.5 m.p.h. instead of the present 5 m.p.h., for example, the commission expects to save auto companies and car buyers $300 million a year. But insurance claims and premiums may increase beyond those estimated by the Government. By killing a proposed Carter Administration rule requiring pharmacists to insert warnings about the side effects of prescription drugs, the Administration expects to save consumers up to $100 million a year. But critics claim that buyers with special health problems could become seriously ill as a consequence...
...more stringent standards on clean air, and 91% either favor existing regulations on safety in workplaces or want those regulations made tougher. Failure to make the distinction between rules involving economic competition and those affecting health and safety, contends George Eads, an adviser on regulations to Presidents Ford and Carter, has "created a backlash" against deregulation that has ruined chances for real reform...
...NHTSA rescinded a Carter Administration rule requiring Detroit to install either automatic seat belts or air bags on all 1984 model cars. The Reagan Administration had argued that motorists would detach the automatic belts, rendering the rule ineffective. The U.S. Supreme Court found this reasoning capricious, possibly because it did not apply to the air-bag option, and NHTSA is now groping for a better reason to oppose the rule...
...prospect of FBI agents giving lie-detector tests to the CIA director and the White House chief of staff is the stuff of political potboilers. Yet that may be the latest twist in the slithering story of the purloined papers from Jimmy Carter's White House that turned up in the hands of Ronald Reagan's campaign aides. FBI investigators working on the case have suggested that conflicting statements by top Administration officials be resolved by having them roll up their sleeves and submit to polygraphs...
...most glaring contradiction now known is between CIA Director William Casey and Chief of Staff James Baker. Baker wrote to a congressional committee in June that Carter's strategy book for the debate with Reagan had been passed to him by Casey, who was then Reagan's campaign chairman. "It is my best recollection that I was given the book by William Casey, with the suggestion that it might be of use," his letter said. Casey, on the other hand, wrote to the committee that "I have no recollection that I ever received, heard of, or learned...