Word: carterized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...party would like to renew its old ties with the South. Atlanta pitched itself as the birthplace of the "New South," mixing a ride on the city's modern subway with mint juleps, barbecue and country music in an antebellum mansion at Stone Mountain. Atlanta turned Native Son Jimmy Carter, not the most popular figure in the Democratic Party, into an asset. The highlight of the trip turned out to be a VIP tour of the Carter Presidential Center, after which the former President treated the committee to a quiche-and-grits brunch...
...calm that could help Bush, who represents serene continuity. Last week the annual Louis Harris survey on "confidence in institutions" reported a sharp drop in those expressing a "great deal of confidence" in the White House, from 30% in 1985 to 19% -- only 1 point higher than in Jimmy Carter's last year. Said Harris: "To be successful, a Republican may have to be able to say, 'I represent a different part of the Republican Party.' " Howard Baker, a potential candidate who could make that claim, observed last week with studied understatement that although Bush "is still the front runner...
...publication might jeopardize the release of hostages.) As for Oliver North, his shadowy activities with the contras have been noted sporadically in the press, but neither Congress nor the press ever aggressively looked into what he was up to. Why not? Admiral Stansfield Turner, who ran the CIA under Carter, believes "it was the popularity of the President that deterred the oversight committees and the press from pursuing the issue." Can it be that the press, like the Supreme Court, follows the election returns...
...stunning move, the long-complaisant S.M.U. faculty, through its senate, called for an end to athletic subsidies. "Football has become out of balance with the university's prime mission," said Economics Professor J. Carter Murphy. "The college is running a big entertainment industry." Two days later S.M.U. President L. Donald Shields took early retirement, citing a diabetes condition...
...year to produce a barrier-laden trade bill. Yet Congress may be tempted to pass protectionist measures under the cover of the new, sexier buzz word of competitiveness, according to Board Member Charles Schultze, a senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution and former chief economic adviser to President Carter. Schultze warned that under the patriotic banner of competitiveness, overzealous legislators may fail to differentiate between healthy steps to boost efficiency (example: increased worker training) and potentially harmful measures to shelter industries (example: quotas on foreign products). The most effective way for the U.S. to become more competitive abroad, Schultze...