Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...control by 1979. G. William Miller, who had served only 17 months as Fed chief, was proving ineffective against the growing crisis. Suddenly one day in July, while Treasury Under Secretary Anthony Solomon was cooling off in his backyard pool, he got an urgent phone call from President Jimmy Carter, who wanted suggestions for a new Fed boss. "Paul Volcker," Solomon replied with little hesitation. "Who's that?" Carter asked, not recognizing the name of the head of the Fed's New York branch...
EXPECTING. Lynda Carter, 35, curvilineal actress who was the eponymous star of TV's Wonder Woman, and her husband, Washington Lawyer Robert Altman, 40: their first child. The baby's anticipated arrival in January has forced Carter to postpone a network sitcom scheduled for the fall...
...book-signing appearance. By afternoon they were on Manhattan's Lower East Side to announce a major housing initiative for the poor and visit an apartment house they helped rehabilitate two summers ago. Such a hectic schedule might tax a brace of yuppies but not Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. Looking refreshed and relaxed last week as they sat together in their New York City hotel suite, Jimmy, 62, and Rosalynn, 59, are clearly exhilarated by all the fanfare for their new book, Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life (Random House; $16.95). The day before...
...know that [former television evangelist] Jim Bakker's problems really started when Tammy Faye took her makeup off and realized she was really Jimmy Hoffa?" asked Sheryl Underwood. She also told a largely unprintable tale about Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon and Gary Hart on a sinking cruise ship...
When I wrote that Jimmy Carter's ban on booze in the White House was a religious fixation and the President ought to encourage good cheer some evening with a martini, he was sore at me for months...