Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...repeal. To address the problems of the homeless, Bush suggested creating federally funded clinics to ease deinstitutionalization for the mentally ill. What Bush didn't mention was that a bill had already been passed to do exactly that; the Mental Health Systems Act was signed into law by President Carter in 1980. Once of Reagan's first executive acts in early 1981 was to insist that it be eliminated from the budget. Bush has no right to call for more clinics for the mentally ill; were it not for his administration, they would exist today...
...rally also featured the Rev. Vernon Carter, a civil rights activist since the 1960s...
...Carter told the group of about 25 project residents, "We must have a voice to the White House to get rid of kingpins and stop drugs from incarcerating young Black people...
...funny. He was successfully treated for alcoholism, moved out of Plains, took a job with a mobile-home company and tried to resume a normal life. Then came the cancer. In a sense, though, it wasn't his body that defeated him; it was the outside world. As Jimmy Carter wrote in his memoir, "He was the president's brother, and therefore fair game...
...done? Yes, but not easily. To begin with, Dukakis must find a way to reduce the age gap. While voters over 35 in TIME's poll divide evenly between the two candidates, those between 18 and 34 go for Bush 60% to 33%. Many younger Americans know only Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan as Presidents. The comparison tips them to the Republicans. Dukakis must exploit -- with far more skill than he has shown so far -- the latent anxiety among voters that today's prosperity may be gone tomorrow. And he needs to arouse a higher level of indignation than...