Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Times/CBS News Poll released last week showed that Reagan's approval rating had dropped to a new low of 41%, and a Washington Post/ABC News Poll indicated that only 35% of the voters think he makes his own decisions. At the same stage in his presidency, Jimmy Carter rated 42% in the Times/'CBS survey...
Despite all the potential pitfalls of a sharp oil-price decline, many energy ex perts feel certain that the benefits would far outweigh the risks. Says John Sawhill, Deputy Secretary of Energy under President Carter: "The soaring OPEC prices were in effect an excise tax on the world economy. A drop would be precisely the reverse - an enormous shot in the arm." Agrees Walter Heller, chief economic ad viser to President Kennedy: "The eco nomic tonic would be worldwide. If best comes to best, and we see $20 to $25 oil again, we could use part of the economic bonanza...
...Graydon Carter...
Clinton A. Carter '83, one of the lead singers for the eight-member "Rhythm Co.," said that he would have preferred a different outcome. "I basically thought that we were the better band. But I'm not holding any grudges," he said...
Alvin Alm, director of the Harvard Energy Security Program, served as assistant secretary of of Energy in the Carter Administration. Henry Lee, a lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government's Energy and Environmental Policy Center, is a former director of the Massachusetts Energy Office. Crimson reporter John D. Solomon spoke to them at the Kennedy School earlier this week...