Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there a phrase to capture all of this? Mondale could not find one. Nor could Hamilton Jordan or Jody Powell. A search through Carter's hundreds of thousands of public words suggests no easy pigeonholes. "It comes out as Jimmy Carter and not a particular philosophy," says a staffer. Carter's top domestic-programs man, Stuart Eizenstat, sees the Carter contribution shaping up roughly in the Democratic progressive tradition-but with important differences. Carter's Keynesian economics is tinged with his rural reluctance to spend a buck. His compassionate populism is tempered by his suspicions of mindless...
...they are merely designed as propaganda to put pressure on us, let no one doubt that we will persevere." Soviet leaders erred if they thought his Administration's "concern for human rights" was "aimed specifically at them." Rather, he repeated, his policy applied "not to any particular people or area of the world, but to all countries equally, including our own." And, he added, "it is specifically not designed to heat up the arms race or bring back the cold...
...speech was part of a calculated White House campaign to persuade Moscow that Carter is serious about human rights and arms control. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in particular believes that much...
...Missing Pets" is not infallible. He is hampered by police indifference, even when he can identify a petnaper. (On occasion, Keane says, he has come close to having his head blown off by professional criminals.) And, he notes "finding a lost bird in Oakland is like finding one particular flea on a Saint Bernard." Nonetheless, his ten-month-old business is prospering, and he has been approached to lend his nom de chien to a movie about Sherlock Bones. He is also working on a book that will not be called Sam Spayed...
...funds into the U.S. has crested in a seemingly endless wave that is nourishing local economies from ailing New York to the striving Sunbelt states. Since 1971 total foreign direct investment has more than doubled from $13.7 billion to an estimated $30 billion in 1976. The Western Europeans, in particular, have been snapping at every investment opportunity-Midwestern farms to outright acquisitions of sizable companies. Says Richard Roberts, a senior international investment adviser at Commerce: "This investment is the hottest thing on the economic scene, and is probably the best-kept secret in Washington...