Word: pasting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation would be lower, the economy would be stronger and the President would be more popular. Hindsight, of course, is one of the few cheap things in this inflationary age. But it has value as a guide to those who do not wish to be condemned to repeat the past. In short, Carter may learn from previous mistakes -his own and those of others...
...equal or top that figure. Blumenthal, Strauss and Carter himself repeatedly, if sometimes vainly, cajoled the Federal Reserve to keep credit easy and hold down interest rates. The President might have known that bankers and businessmen, many of whom considered money policy to have been loose in months past, would interpret this as yet another sign that the Administration was soft on inflation...
...inevitable result was the summer of double-digit dis content, followed by Stage II. Announcing it, Carter conceded that the tom-toms reverberating from the Oval Office in the past had signaled anything but a determined anti-inflationary policy. The regulators who he now suggests are out of control are Carter appointees. The budget that he says is too big is a Carter budget. But the good news is that the President pro fesses at last to recognize the problems and to have learned from past misjudgments...
Brooke's backers range from Henry Kissinger to black Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson. But Tsongas has a popular supporter too: Senator Edward Kennedy. In the past, Kennedy has never actively helped Brooke's opponents. But sensing that Brooke is in serious trouble, Kennedy has taped TV commercials in behalf of Tsongas, who in turn backs Kennedy's national health insurance plan. If Brooke loses, he will have one small consolation: the Ethics Committee will probably call off its investigation. Otherwise, the probe will...
...were contaminating the food or that you ought to pop out of a cake. It's not like you're one of the boys; you feel like a hunk of meat." Louisiana Democrat Lindy Boggs succeeded her late husband in Congress, but to keep the seat for the past six years, she has had to win acceptance as one of the regulars at places like the Half Moon oyster house and Parasol's Bar, where politics is played in New Orleans' Italian and Irish neighborhoods...