Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lloyd Cutler, who was counsel to President Carter, argues that "normally a statute that mentions other executive agencies but not the President explicitly is interpreted as not applying to him." But critics protest that this would put the President above the law. Says Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe: "Congress's control over the purse would be rendered a nullity if the President's pocket could conceal a slush fund dedicated to purposes and projects prohibited by the laws of the U.S." Democratic Congressman Edward Boland observed that if Reagan wanted to claim exemption from the amendment, he should have done...
...sought to protect Western interests there. Britain's global retreat in the wake of the war marked the emergence of America's world role. Washington resisted Soviet probes into Iran in 1946, and since then has played a dominant role in the region. Under what became known as the Carter Doctrine, for example, the U.S. declared the Persian Gulf to be an area of vital strategic interest and pledged to defend it militarily from any incursions by the Soviet Union or any other nation...
Free agency has featured its share of superstars--Steve Garvey, Reggie Jackson, Bob Boone, Pete Rose, Andre Dawson, Graig Nettles, Gary Carter. But it has also produced its share of duds--Steve Kemp, Dave Goltz, Rick Honeycutt, Jason Thompson...
...Rice, Dan Quisenberry, George Brett, Eddie Murray and Mike Schmidt all make more than $2 million base salary; Gary Carter, Don Mattingly, Ozzie Smith and Willie Wilson fall just a hair short of that mark...
Although only Carter joined his present franchise via the free-agent route, the eight others--along with other players of their caliber--are paid such high salaries to preventthem from seeking free-agency...