Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ford rounded out Harvard's performance by posting a time of 15:19.44 in the 1650 free, good enough for 16th place...
...Secret Service, true to its name, is tight-lipped about the nature of the protection, but allows that agents are assigned 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to guard Nixon (protection for his wife Pat was dropped last year at his request), Gerald and Betty Ford, Lady Bird Johnson and Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter (Amy is 17). The Secret Service grudgingly admits that the cost for protecting former Presidents and their families last year was $10.7 million...
...presidential libraries and for ex-Chief Executives' offices and staffs. Says Chiles: "I think President Nixon's announcement is the best news we've had. His example is a good one for other past Presidents to follow, but we need to make it law." A spokesman for Ford said the ex-President anticipates that he will follow Nixon's lead, but notes, "We won't be driven by Nixon's timing." Carter had no comment on Nixon's decision...
...begun by the Japanese four years ago to head off stringent measures by Congress to protect Detroit's then bleeding auto industry. Helped by the protection and by their own new efficiencies, Detroit's automakers have revived, earning profits of $9.8 billion in 1984. One sign of prosperity: Ford Motor Co. last week distributed $360 million of its $2.9 billion of 1984 profits to 170,000 hourly and salaried workers at the company's U.S. operations, an average of $2,000 for each...
...week's end the Administration said it had no shortlist of potential successors to Donovan. Labor Under Secretary Ford B. Ford, who has run the department in his absence, is not considered a candidate. "The President would have been reluctant to have us looking around until Donovan had decided (to resign) on his own," according to one Administration official. Said another: "The search for a replacement starts tomorrow...