Word: credited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many view Brzezinski as a loose cannon, overeager and self-promotional to a fault, but the fact is that Carter's foreign policy accomplishments are his single political strength. Brzezinski comfortably accepts a great deal of the credit. He is the principal architect of Carter's human rights policy, identifying the U.S. with developing forces of change around the world. His views on the MX missile prevailed. He was the Administration's key operator on Nicaragua and pushed his firm line for Anastasio Somoza's ouster...
...openly. Many of the whites whom ghetto blacks meet face to face are Jews (one reason: some black ghettos were once predominantly Jewish neighborhoods, and often Jewish businesses have stayed in place even though their owners now live elsewhere). Blacks often see them as exploiting landlords, store owners and credit managers or as teachers who fail to educate black pupils. Jews working in or living near the black ghetto, in turn, fear the violence they see around them (as, of course, do blacks...
...probably kept him from making many more mistakes. How many wives have you seen put a restraining hand on their husband's arm, be it ball games, barrooms or business, and say "Now, dear." It says a lot of good things about Jimmy that he gives Rosalynn the credit that...
...most alarming one in the nation's history. Because competitiveness and efficiency have declined, and productivity growth, that most basic yardstick for measuring a nation's economic vitality, has slowed, the real cost of producing goods has jumped. Meanwhile, to keep demand up, the Government has created money and credit at far faster rates than businessmen can turn out products and services. The result: too much money chasing too few goods, which is a classic inflation. Largely because of the rapid expansion of money, the average household income is more than twice as much as it was ten years...
...policy. Last week the Fed lifted its discount rate, the amount that it charges for loans to commercial banks, from 10% to a record 10½%, suggesting that even in the face of a business slowdown the board is at last determined to halt the excessive expansion of money and credit...