Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stewart has taken a leave of absence from the Law School for the time being. Like many of his colleagues who have spent similar stints in Washington--including Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence and former Solicitor General Charles L. Fried--Stewart is expected to return to the Law School after his term at Justice...
Stewart has taken a leave of absence from the Law School for the time being. Like many of his colleagues who have spent similar stints in Washington--including Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence and former Solicitor General Charles L. Fried--Stewart is expected to return to the Law School after his term at Justice...
...Supreme Court -- say, Justices William Brennan, Byron White, Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O'Connor -- along with hundreds of lower-ranking but still prominent jurists. Expand the list of victims to include Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates, both slain, and Amy Carter, kidnaped and held briefly as a warning to authorities who might get tough with the narco-barons. And then the grand climax: the 1987 assassination of George Bush, murdered at a campaign rally just as he had become the favorite to be elected President the following year...
...Carter term was marred by a running feud between the patrician, conciliatory Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and the scrappy, viscerally anti- Soviet National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski...
Nixon encouraged backbiting; Ford, Carter and Reagan tolerated it; George Bush won't stand for it. Shortly after his Inauguration, he distributed a list of commandments. "Be frank," reads one. "Fight hard for your position," is the next. Then: "When I make the call, we move as a team...