Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large, the names being bandied about for Carters Cabinet pleased the President-elect's supporters. Inevitably, they displeased some, who feared that Carter was reneging on his campaign's populist themes and promises to bring new faces to the Government's highest levels. Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, for one, announced that his honeymoon with Carter might come to a premature end because Carter was paying too much attention to "corporate interests" and not enough to consumer representatives...
...national nerve. Overlong and preachy, exaggerated even within the bounds of satire, the movie nonetheless has the power of a frightening revelation (TIME, Nov. 29). Like the Frank Capra films of the '30s and '40s (particularly Meet John Doe), it is half entertainment and half message, a populist plea for the individual against inhuman institutions. But unlike the movies of those optimistic days, there is no happy ending...
...president of the National Bank of Georgia, after joining with two Atlanta businessmen to buy the controlling interest for $7.4 million. During the presidential campaign, Lance worked quietly and effectively to soothe business leaders who did not know what to make of a man who called himself a populist...
...reasonable." Those goals are a 6% rise in real output, v. 3.8% in this year's third quarter, and a reduction of 1½ points in the unemployment rate, currently 7.9%. More important, Burns helped to engineer a further drop in interest rates that should please Populist Carter-and make it easier for businessmen to borrow for expansion...
...might lead a headline reader to believe. To the contrary, though the business community voted solidly for Ford, executives are taking a relaxed, wait-and-see attitude toward the forthcoming Carter Administration. They hope that the new President can indeed get the business recovery moving again, and that his populist oratory during the campaign will not be followed by any significant anti-business action...