Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eastern regional responsibilities, she realized that the fashion industry is a source of major news in the area. She began her career with TIME in the L.B.J. era, reporting from Washington on events ranging from Viet Nam War protests to the Watergate scandals and the resignation of Richard Nixon. In 1977 Angelo was named London bureau chief, a job she held for the next 7 1/2 years, through the political emergence of Margaret Thatcher, the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, and the Falklands war. Despite her fascination with Britain, Angelo, who has reported stories from 60 countries...
...also introduced the investment tax credit, on the theory that the tax code should promote industrial modernization, a prime example of manipulating the code for purposes other than raising revenue. George McGovern pledged some tax reforms during his 1972 campaign for the presidency; those promises were buried under Richard Nixon's 49-state landslide. Four years later Jimmy Carter railed at a tax system he called a "disgrace to the human race." Among other things, he cemented the three-martini lunch in American folklore. (By making only 80% of business entertainment deductible, the new bill in effect transforms that fabled...
...seemed a quaint appendage sprawling southward down the Pacific Coast, a pleasant afterthought with an odd weakness for white shoes and alarmists of the John Birch Society stripe. To the larger world, the county still summons up images of citrus groves and Disneyland, planned communities and the young Richard Nixon, hard- core conservatism and the late John Wayne. But today Orange County is undergoing a dramatic change, exploding with new wealth. Its economic output has more than tripled in a decade, and its population since 1970 has jumped by 50%, to 2.1 million. The county's coastal area has transformed...
...which bitingly portrayed the social and political corruption of the time. This year has produced Christopher Buckley's The White House Mess, a comedy about Administration intrigue, and John Ehrlichman's The China Card, a thriller loosely based on the China policy of his former boss President Nixon. Particularly since Watergate, journalists have attained star quality, becoming part of the panoply of fictional heroes and villains. Indeed, Regrets Only hit Washington at the same time as the movie version of Heartburn, Nora Ephron's fictionalized account of the breakup of her marriage to Watergate Sleuth Carl Bernstein...
...there was a reason for it. The President's address was in part designed to showcase a symbolic centerpiece: the announcement that the U.S. was sending a black Ambassador to South Africa. The name of the nominee had already seeped out: Robert Brown, a North Carolina businessman and former Nixon staffer. But in further checking, the Administration became concerned about Brown's business association in the past with Alhaji Umaru Dikko, an exiled Nigerian leader who has been charged with embezzling millions of dollars. Brown was hastily persuaded by the White House to withdraw his name...