Word: forde
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...Community Development Block Grants, first enacted in 1974 with the support of President Gerald Ford, provide $3.5 billion each year for city developments and services which primarily benefit low- and moderate-income persons. CDBG replaced urban renewal and model cities programs to encourage greater local flexibility...
That was by no means an isolated event. Earlier that week pro-Sandinista youths known as turbas divinas (divine mobs) had harassed opposition supporters meeting in the city of León. Two days later another mob stoned Cruz's blue Ford while it was parked in front of the Recreo restaurant in the cattle-ranching town of Boaco, where the opposition leader was meeting with about 100 of his backers. Said Cruz as he surveyed his smashed windshield: "How can we go into an electoral process if this is going to happen every...
LE96 Brent CLAPACS (6-3,218.Sr) LT 83 Peter MACKIE(6-6.240.Sr) MG 51 Dave FANIKOS (6-2.226.Sr) RT 95 Barry FORD (6-3.218.Sr) LB 48 Brent WILKINSON (6-2.210.Jr) LB 46 Dan BENNETT (6-0.195.Sr) ADI 18 K C. SMITH (6-0.915.Jr) LC 85 Ken TARCZY (6-0.175.Jr) RC 27 Brian BERGSTROM (6-2.190.Sr) FS 3 Cecil COX (6-2.200.Sr...
...million more than necessary for the expensive and useless weapon. The study was released by Oregon's Republican Congressman Denny Smith, a fierce opponent of DIVAD. According to the report, the Pentagon was too concerned with producing the weapon swiftly to bargain carefully with the manufacturer, the Ford Aerospace and Communications Corp. of Newport Beach, Calif., a division of Ford Motor Co. Said Smith: "Not only are we buying a DIVAD that doesn't work; the taxpayers are being ripped off by excessive charges...
...phone never stopped ringing. "Congratulations. The National Book Critics Circle has just named Ironweed the best novel of 1983." "Congratulations. Ironweed has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize." Callers from the West Coast snatched up the film rights to earlier novels, Legs and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game. Francis Ford Coppola hired the author to write the script for his $45 million movie The Cotton Club; and the public library of Albany, New York State's capital and the author's home town, proclaimed a William Kennedy Day to honor its first native literary star since Bret Harte...