Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jimmy Carter missed Smith's deadline by two years. SALT II was not signed until 1979, and it has never been ratified. Still, the ABM treaty has remained in effect, and Reagan was careful to say last week that his pursuit of a breakthrough in defensive technology would be "consistent with our obligations under the ABM treaty." Making good on that assurance will be tricky, since Article V of the treaty prohibits not just deployment but development of space-based ABMS, as well as more down-to-earth methods...
Savov is said to have told Mantarov that the KGB concluded in 1979 that Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter's Polish-born National Security Adviser, had somehow engineered the election of Pope John Paul II the previous year. Brzezinski's supposed purpose: to use the Pope to inspire further unrest in Poland and eventually to wrench the country out of the Soviet orbit. Mantarov claims that he was told that as the troubles in Poland mounted, and as the Pontiff came to be identified with the budding Solidarity movement, Soviet authorities gave the command to "eliminate" the Pope...
...retailers sometimes more than 20%. At the time, usury laws in nearly half the states set credit-card interest ceilings of 12% for balances of more than a few hundred dollars. Partly for that reason, Sears, Roebuck lost $83 million on its credit-card sales in 1981, while the Carter Hawley Hale chain of department stores dropped $74 million...
...Hollywood recycling mill humming at full capacity, actresses combing through the bios of studio film stars for a juicy part are as thick as autumn leaves-and some even thicker. And so with her Wonder Woman tights permanently stored away in some back-lot prop warehouse, Television Actress Lynda Carter dons a red wig and sucks in her tummy for Rita Hayworth, the Love Goddess, an upcoming two-hour CBS television movie. Carter learned how to dance and watched some of Rita's old films to strive for what she calls "the essence" of her character-goodness knows...
...between, the British actress frantically gobbled French fries to put on 14 Ibs. and give her 110-lb. frame a little Monroevian oomph. The result: the critics loved her, though they could not swallow the play. Said one: "Yet one more leaden exercise in necrophiliac hagiography." -By E. Graydon Carter...