Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush's handlers very effectively moved the campaign onto more comfortable ground. By equating Dukakis with Carter and Mondale they are suddenly running against the type of candidate history shows they can defeat...
...Dukakis maintains his vague approach and still wins--not inconceivable, considering Bush's propensity for shooting himself in the behind--he may well suffer from the same symptoms Carter faced as president...
...having stirred people as a campaigner, Carter never won their loyalty. When things did not go right for him as president, people did not back him up, did not say, "I will stand by Carter because of the risk he took in the campaign by saying what he would...
Four years is a long time in an athlete's career, and eight years at a world-class level of competition is almost an eternity. Yet it is a dozen years since U.S. and Soviet teams met at a Summer Olympics. Historians will long debate President Carter's 1980 decision following the invasion of Afghanistan to snub the only Olympics ever held in the Soviet Union. They will debate as well whether the Soviets avoided Los Angeles four years later out of fear about security, as claimed, or as retaliatory tit for tat. To most athletes, the underlying stratagems...
...endorsements about $500,000 a year, roughly the wage of a journeyman major-league baseball player. Football drains away sprinters to become pass catchers and weight throwers to play as linemen or on defense: six days after he won the 1984 Olympic silver medal in the shot put, Michael Carter was a nose tackle appearing in his first exhibition game for the San Francisco 49ers. For swimmers, divers, gymnasts and many others, there is effectively no professional life to follow except in coaching or, for an elite, in endorsements and sportscasting...