Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...league. Many recall how New York Mets' General Manager M. Donald Grant traded away the likes of Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, John Matlack, Rusty Staub, and Dave Kingman--all within a year. Then again, they remember how quickly the same Mets acquired such superstars as Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter, Ron Darling and Sid Fernandez in just as little time. It has been only six years since the Montreal Expos appeared in the split-season playoffs with one of the most promising teams in the majors. And yet, only one starting player from that '81 playoff team remains...
...effect: Reagan's powerful connection with the American psychology now takes on a negative charge. In a way that would have seemed inconceivable not long ago, op-ed writers venture to speak well of Jimmy Carter. One senses uneasily a return of the world Americans thought they had left behind when Carter went back to Plains...
...rights movement and the sexual revolution, against high taxes, Government regulation, the Washington elite, the Woodstock generation. George Wallace was in full cry against "pointy-headed intellectuals." The Nixon-Agnew ticket swept into power. Watergate brought Gerald Ford's brief period of consolidation and then the anomaly of Jimmy Carter, who came to Washington campaigning against Big Government, just as Reagan did four years later...
Pakistan's new capability also puts the U.S. on the spot. For years Washington has warned Islamabad against developing nuclear arms. In 1979 the U.S. cut off military and economic aid to Pakistan. When Jimmy Carter offered to restore some assistance following the Soviet invasion of neighboring Afghanistan, Zia contemptuously told the ex-peanut farmer that the funds would not be missed because they amounted to "only peanuts." In recent weeks there have been renewed cries in Congress to punish Pakistan for continuing to defy U.S. nonproliferation policy. John Glenn, leader of the movement in the Senate, warned last week...
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