Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amusing it is that Reagan praises Tyrone Ford for "surmounting adversity" to become an accomplished musician and calls for greater opportunity. Meanwhile, he pursues cuts in funding for the arts, threatening the opportunities of promising young musicians...
...election this year. State Republicans, fearing that Cuomo may also be a strong presidential candidate in 1988, have been courting an unlikely contender who they think could at least bloody, if not beat, the Governor. Last week Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford Administrations, allowed that Republican leaders had urged him to run, and that he was actually engaged in a "consideration of their views...
There was, at the apex of detente during Gerald Ford's Administration, a brief hope that space could become a bridge rather than a barrier between the superpowers. In 1975 astronauts and cosmonauts aboard an Apollo and a Soyuz spacecraft linked in a display of heavenly symbolism. But such episodes proved to be merely minor exceptions to the rule that space was inevitably where the superpowers would extend their rivalry...
...University of South Carolina, he recalled feeling discouraged as a college freshman until a guidance counselor urged him to pursue physics "because I think you're good enough." Fortified by those words, McNair went on to earn honors galore. Among them: being named a Presidential Scholar and Ford Foundation Fellow, and a doctorate in physics from M.I.T., where he helped develop specialized lasers. Along the way he acquired impressive skills as a saxophonist and fifth-degree black-belt karate instructor...
...names were at the Houston Auto Show: General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Volkswagen, Toyota and Nissan. But the name that attracted the most attention was a new one: Hyundai (rhymes with Sunday). Hyundai is the first South Korean company to export cars to the U.S. At the Houston show and at the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in New Orleans, Hyundai last week unveiled its new Excel, a front-wheel-drive subcompact with an enticing base price of $4,995. The company is launching Excel with a $25 million advertising campaign and confidently predicts that it will sell 100,000 vehicles...