Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hamlet of Plains, Ga., where the jungle heat of August still hung on, Jimmy Carter was tanned and rested from his long midsummer idyl and eager to go. When the word came that the debates were on?that he would be able to meet Gerald Ford face to face while tens of millions watched on television?Carter was delighted, confident that he would do well in the duels that could decide the campaign...
...GOVERNMENT. Ford emphasizes that his vetoes are fighting the growth of the federal bureaucracy?as well as inflation. He endorses the traditional Republican position that the Government should meddle less in the affairs of the citizenry. Carter wants to make federal programs more efficient and "compassionate"?a favorite word in his political lexicon. He vows one of his first missions in the White House would be to root out Washington's "horrible bureaucratic mess" by reducing some 1,900 federal agencies to about 200. Just how he would accomplish this wonder he has not said...
...fudge and hedge his positions. He has taken three different stands on whether or not he would embargo grain sales to the Soviet Union (the last: no embargo unless a national food shortage or some other emergency required it). Ford's campaign manager, James Baker, has coined a word for this Carter characteristic: "Waffability...
Complete Victory. The trial finally began last spring. Two months into the trial, Rose Mondavi died. Robert and Peter stood close together at her funeral but spoke not a word to each other. Last month Judge Robert D. Carter awarded Robert a complete victory. He found that the old partnership, C. Mondavi & Sons, is "no longer the family corporation originally envisioned" and ordered the assets of the Krug Winery sold...
Penal Collar. Solomon is equally perceptive about China's preoccupation with the printed word. He traces its cultural continuity from the Confucian classics to the thoughts of Chairman Mao. An ancient government bureaucrat advanced by studying the classics. Today his ambitious counterpart must master Marxism as the primary qualification for success in virtually any field...