Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee includes: former congressman from Missouri Richard Bolling; former Attorney General and President of the Univ. of Chicago, Edward Levi; chief executive of the former Itech Corporation, Franklin Lindsay; Philip F. Hughes from the Smithsonian Institute; Philip Buchen, a Washington attorney and former counsel to President Ford; and former Secretary of Health and Human Services Joseph Califano...
Baker's switch to Treasury is much less risky and seems destined to have less impact on the Reagan presidency than Regan's move to the White House. The Texan arrives with scarcely any background in his new field--he was an Under Secretary of Commerce in the Ford Administration--but his confirmation ) hearings should prove a breeze. He relies heavily on his astute aide, Darman, who will be the second-ranking officer at Treasury. While deficit reduction remains the top priority on the agenda of both the Administration and Congress, Baker sees genuine historical opportunity in responding...
...Freed from the heavy, established GM structure, Saturn's managers are supposed to move swiftly on several fronts to make cars that are, in both quality and cost, competitive with Japanese models. Currently, for example, Japanese automakers can turn out a vehicle for about $1,500 less than GM, Ford or Chrysler. At the same time, though Detroit's products are rapidly improving, the Japanese reputation for quality, as surveyed in publications like Consumer Reports, is generally higher among buyers...
...talented tactician, delivering 61% of the votes cast in the county, which includes Houston. Baker would say later that the campaign made him "absolutely, totally, pure Republican." He went on to work on President Nixon's re-election campaign, served briefly as Under Secretary of Commerce in the Ford Administration and in 1976 helped Ford defeat Reagan for the Republican nomination. As Ford's campaign chairman in the late stages of the race, Baker waged an aggressive fight in a losing effort against Jimmy Carter, impressing the Republican Establishment with his energy, acumen and cool efficiency...
...Betty Ford's irrepressible honesty startled the nation. She was in her way the housemother of the laid-back '70s. Her children got mixed up in the naughtiness of the era. Mrs. Ford said she did not approve of premarital sex but would not be surprised if it happened in her family. When breast cancer struck, she became the world's gentle tutor on how to face down the tragedy. The price of public life was a dangerous dependence on alcohol and medication. After leaving the White House, she bravely took the cure. A woman who neither wanted nor sought...