Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...virtue of his two terms as Vice President, took a drubbing in his first debate with John Kennedy and may have lost the election as a result. Sitting on big leads, Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Nixon in 1972 never came close to debating their opponents. Gerald Ford in 1976 and Jimmy Carter in 1980 were willing to take the chance because they were locked in tight races. It was a losing gamble...
...Donovan step aside: in the past three years he has cut the Labor Department's work force from 22,000 to below 18,000 and its budget from $30.1 billion to $25.3 billion. Taking over Donovan's day-to-day duties is Under Secretary Ford B. Ford, 62, a nearly invisible bureaucrat who is expected to stay on the course set by Donovan...
...expected to carry the district by an overwhelming margin. Yet ever since Jones was elected in 1972, a year that Richard Nixon carried the district over George McGovern with 79% of the vote, Jones has been able to persuade his constituents to split their tickets. In 1976 Gerald Ford carried the district with 62%, and in 1980 Reagan beat Jimmy Carter 2 to 1. "The nice thing about my district," Jones says, "is that it has always been fiercely independent...
...live in health clubs or on roller skates, or to the hotly cultivated yuppies who have come to mean so much to themselves. The "rugged" saves "rugged individualism" from shabbiness by implying not merely solitary but courageous action. Look. Here comes America. Davy Crockett, Thomas Edison, Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Ford. Those fellows built a nation with their hands...
...respected former Dean of the Faculty Franklin Ford said in the Epps' report, "Unfortunately, to my way of thinking, the conflict between the opportunities for scholars and artists in the University is a function of the nature of art and the nature of the University...