Word: decisional
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jimmy Carter's decision to decontrol the price of oil two years before it was legally mandated may have been the single biggest mistake of his tenure as president. Carter swam into the presidency / spouting populist rhetoric. He's still spouting, but his actions belie his words. On the issue...
Baker has politics bred into his bones. Born in the Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee, a pocket of Republicanism since the Civil War, he is the third generation of his family to go into politics. (His grandmother succeeded her husband as sheriff; his stepmother followed his father into Congress.) After graduating...
The networks, in a decision that must delight sitcom fans everywhere, have refused. Stated reason: it is too early for TV politicking.
Indeed, commercial spots for a half-hour episode of M*A*S*H would bring in $900,000 now, compared with the $180,000 or so the Carter-Mondale Committee would have to fork over. (An FCC decision on their case is expected within two weeks.) The networks deny that...
Great Britain bucked the trend along with the U.S., until it made the major North Sea discoveries. England's minister for energy noted in 1975. "No other government outside the United States has thought it wise to be completely dependent on the oil companies." But the U.S. would not have...