Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ford led the Cantabs with victories in the 500- and 1000-yd. freestyle, finishing the 1000 in 9:32, a respectable time for this early in the season...
...unemployment down to 3%, as the bishops propose. "The bishops' letter is a resurrection of old policies that are no longer supported by those knowledgeable in economics," said Alan Greenspan, president of the Townsend-Greenspan economic consulting firm and chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford. Charles Murray, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank, called the proposed pastoral "a restatement of the dogmas of the Great Society" and "a rehash of failed ideas." The bishops, wrote Columnist George Will, "hurl cliches at problems that have proven intractable in the face...
...levels and force the state legislature to muster a four-fifths majority for income tax increases. It would also have required voter approval for all new levies. Opposing the proposition was an unusual coalition of critics, including Democratic Governor James Blanchard, the state's leading corporations (General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler), the AFL-CIO, educators and former G.O.P. Governors Wilham Milliken and George Romney. They helped persuade voters that the measure would have drastically shrunk state services, especially education...
...from the torrid pace of this year's first half to a more sustainable growth rate. Says Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson: "This is a lull, but not a lull that has come to stay." Concurs Alan Greenspan, President Ford's chief economist: "As best I can judge, it's just a pause...
...successful spy prosecutions in the U.S. The Rockefeller Commission, impaneled to investigate intelligence abuses, discovered one of the reasons in 1975 when it unearthed a 21-year-old secret agreement under which the Justice Department gave the CIA discretion to conceal crimes by its own agents. President Gerald Ford abrogated that agreement in 1976. When the Carter Administration took over, Attorney General Griffin Bell also took a tough stance. "Neither the CIA nor the public at large is well served by hiding cases of successful spying," he later explained...