Word: lost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...peace efforts. Bull-feathers! Even the majority of his critics would acknowledge that whatever takes place between Egypt and Israel, Carter's effort to conclude a peace was courageous and worthwhile. This is one game in which winning isn't necessarily everything; Americans still respect good causes, lost or otherwise...
...blame. Bo Cutter, the man from the Office of Management and Budget who directs the preparation of the budget, has made it a point to remind his staff repeatedly that a million dollars is a lot of money. In the hundreds-of-billions environment, a million dollars can be lost like a rolling penny heading for a sewer grate. Cutter has had his staff calculate some other reminders: a million dollars' worth of quarters stands almost as high as Mount Everest; the number of stacked quarters in this year's budget would extend as far as five round...
...public money lost its meaning? Some institutions measure their effectiveness by the amount of tax dollars they can get, not how well they are used. Politicians run on the amounts they get for their districts, not what the dollars do. In the mounting political debate, the billions of dollars become objects moved around on a game board in a contest between parties and ideologies. The people involved seem to worry more about how they play the game than about the national interest...
Granted, there are about 42 other guys scrambling over each other in the GOP trying to take credit for the Tax Revolt, the Second American Revolution. And all asking "Who Lost China?" and saying "Guns Don't Kill People, Inflation Kills People." The Republicans seem to think they have a chance of winning, since Watergate has long since past and Carter comes off looking inept and confused. Which probably accounts for why Carter was willing to take so much criticism from supporters in the Democratic Party for bringing Nixon to the White House to meet Deng Xiao-Ping. Carter...
...support of the Fundamentalists, the Born-Again folk, but Brown taps the Tao, culls the Zen support, rides the whole neo-Eastern-religious-cultists-pseudo-mystical wave. And Carter can scarcely forget that out of the last ten or so primaries in 1976 he only won a handful, and lost every head-to-head match he had with Brown...