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Adversity does not deter Ford-he has lost too often for that. In his senior year, the Michigan football team dropped all but one game. While he was the minority leader in the House, Ford was defeated time and again. He does not brood about a failure, nor does he second-guess himself after making a decision. His mind just does not work that way, and never has. He is simple and direct, and by nature optimistic, a feeling understandably reinforced by the experience of his own life. Ten years ago -five years ago-it would have been inconceivable...
Though any loss of life is a high price to be paid in an operation designed to foil terrorists and deter further terrorism, the hijacking was particularly hideous because it smacked of genocide. How else does one characterize the terrorists' release of all but the Jewish passengers...
...equal basis. This right, the majority held, applies to a private school's enrollment contract. For the hundreds of so-called white academies that sprang up after public school desegregation, particularly in the South, the new decision outlaws a formal whites-only policy. But it probably will not deter academies from citing dozens of spurious reasons for rejecting individual black applicants...
Even before the Quebec expedition, the small pox proved to be a menace. Boston had so many cases that the disease helped deter General George Washington from trying to fight his way into the city last spring. Said he: "If we escape the small pox in this camp and the country around about, it will be miraculous." Only after General Howe evacuated the city did Washington send in 500 of his men who had already had the disease...
...this state to vote for me, whether they call themselves Democrats, Republicans or independents." He was especially anxious about the kind of cross-over vote that sealed his defeats in Texas and Indiana. In 1972 in Michigan, more than 800,000 people voted for George Wallace; Ford hoped to deter them from swinging to Reagan. Said he: "We must win in Michigan...