Word: deal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Everyone said, 'Can't we come up with something better?' " one aide recalls. Apparently not. Indeed, some of the alternatives were clearly worse -"groundwork," for example, or "building blocks." And though "new" is one of the oldest terms in political rhetoric, repeatedly reappearing as in "New Deal" or "New Frontier," the Carter team played with the idea of "improved...
Nothing delights me so much as facing up to a complex public issue, with all its confusions, turmoil and intensity, and trying to pull together the human resources to deal with it." Thus did Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller explain his political outlook during his confirmation hearings for Vice President in 1974. The words also summed up his whole political career, from his apprenticeship under a Democratic Administration to his four terms as New York Governor to his last moments in the limelight during a brief stint as Vice President. He truly loved problems and, with an exuberant confidence that few politicians...
Washington's basic hope is that a more or less tranquil transition period might encourage all political elements to build a new national consensus that could eventually lead to a stable government. Bakhtiar's decision late last week to deal directly with Khomeini suggested that more death and bloodshed could possibly be averted and that Iran might conceivably begin to dream of peace and unity...
...will face far fiercer opposition than the Civil Aeronautics Board encountered when it carried out its successful deregulation of airfares last year. Alfred Kahn, as CAB chief, had to deal with only 26 airlines, and some of the biggest backed deregulation, judging correctly that lower fares would tempt more people to fly and actually increase their profits. The ICC must contend with 16,600 regulated truck lines-at least one in every congressional district, truckers like to point out-and most are united in the belief that lowering rates and letting new firms enter the business will not generate more...
after all, since it doesn't mean anything but sounds like New Freedom, New Nationalism, Square Deal, Fair Deal, New Deal, and New Federalism. When the "theme" wears thin, Carter can stir up wars and skillfully avoid them, or win them, and he can play with the economy to make us feel more prosperous than we ever will be. But the Georgian is no longer the man who can walk up to a three-year-old, smile a good-old-boy-two-sets-of-teeth-smile and say, "Why shucks, I don't even rightly recollect as I know where...