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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rough equivalency"?but would somewhat change the composition of the forces. He would scrap plans to produce the B-l bomber, a $21 billion program, while maintaining research and development on the supersonic aircraft. He would equip obsolescent B-52s with new, long-range cruise missiles. He would build more Navy ships but concentrate on smaller vessels, like destroyers, instead of carriers and cruisers. He would reduce U.S. forces overseas...
...goal of Ford's strategy will be to build a coalition of support; Carter's will be to hold on to his. The Georgian will attack Ford for "indecisiveness," claiming that he would be not only a better manager but a more aggressive one. When a Senate committee charged last week that the Medicaid program was beset by multibillion-dollar fraud and inefficiency, Carter wondered where the President had been while the mess was brewing: "Sitting in the White House, perhaps,timid, fearful, afraid to lead, afraid to manage...
...agents told of this work, John P. Dunphy, the head of the section, agreed to talk freely to the Justice Department about more serious misuse of Government funds and services. In return, the Justice Department permitted him to plead guilty to the minor indiscretion of having his section build a birdhouse for his home. Kelley then had little choice but to fire Dunphy. It was Dunphy who mentioned the Kelley valances to investigators...
...Cheaper. The CAB did try to build some limits into the ABC plan so as not to entirely undercut the scheduled carriers. Airlines or charter operators, for example, may cancel a flight altogether under ABC if enough passengers do not show up; they may also change arrival and departure dates. Passengers who cancel will forfeit what the CAB described as a "substantial portion" of ticket costs. ABC also will be restrained by other rules, such as prohibiting charter operators from raising ticket prices if a flight is not fully booked, so prices may well be pegged high enough to offset...
...draft and the trade, the man who picked Fran Tarkenton when scrambling quarterbacks were an apostasy in the N.F.L., and who traded for Paul Warfield when he was supposedly Cleveland's only untradable player. He refers to his system as the "artichoke method." Says Thomas: "You build from the inside. At the core are the tender young rookies, the ones you get in the draft. You build under the veterans, and then you keep peeling them off, like the leaves of an artichoke, until you're down to the heart...