Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...professionals from the Administration and longtime cronies from California. Running unopposed in his own party, Reagan can make use of all the brainpower available to the Republicans, tapping talent nurtured by the crowded 1980 Republican field, and drawing on the best operatives across the nation. Whether they were once Ford men, Bush men, or Dole men, today these GOP politices have only one thing on their mind-the reelection of Ronald Reagan...
...more relaxed style of Western diplomatic gestures. TIME has learned that Thatcher, in consultation with Washington, hopes to expand bilateral meetings between East-bloc and Western foreign ministers in order to lay the groundwork for a possible superpower summit along the lines of the 1974 meeting between President Gerald Ford and Brezhnev in Vladivostok. Said Thatcher: "If there is to be progress on arms control, it will come not through negotiating skill alone but because a broader understanding has been reached...
...however, the economy remains upward bound. Said Alan Greenspan, a New York consultant who was President Ford's chief economic adviser: "The slowing from the peak pace of last year has been remarkably modest. And far more important, there is no evidence of imminent deterioration...
...imports, high interest rates and public disenchantment have battered U.S. automakers and their products. But better times have finally arrived-and in a very big way. General Motors, the world's largest carmaker, last week reported profits of $3.7 billion for 1983, almost four times the 1982 total. Ford and Chrysler will also report handsome earnings. When all the tallying is done, Detroit's Big Three will show profits of about $6.4 billion for last year, vs. losses of $4 billion in 1980 and $1.2 billion in 1981, and a slight profit of $475 million in 1982. Only...
Former President Gerald Ford, 70, whose life seems to be dogged by minor mishaps, has a knack for turning even the genteel game of golf into a hazardous sport. At the Bing Crosby National Pro-Am tournament in Pebble Beach, Calif., all was going well for Ford and his partner, Jack Nicklaus, 44, until they reached the 15th tee. There, Ford hooked a shot that traveled 90 yards and bopped a woman spectator squarely on the head. The unlucky lady was knocked down, and Ford's round was delayed for 30 minutes as medics administered sympathy and stitches. Ford...