Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...duty understood, the cyborg takes to the streets in a Ford Taurus police cruiser, detecting crimes with his computer sensors and then swiftly disposing of the perpetration...
Reagan must bear in mind the Watergate precedent. In 1974, only one month after Richard Nixon's resignation, Gerald Ford pardoned him for all crimes he might have committed during his presidency. Ford's action left a bitter taste with many voters and may have contributed to his narrow loss to Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential election. Reagan, of course, is not a candidate for re-election, but he has become increasingly concerned with his place in history and would not want to be remembered for having weakened the chances of the Republican nominee...
...Lynchburg ministry. Bakker loyalists remain unconvinced. Said Robert Zanesky, the lawyer for a group of PTL contributors intent on removing Falwell: "His credibility stinks." Says Ryan Hovis, a bankruptcy lawyer representing Bakker: "No stockholder in Chrysler would sit still if Lee Iacocca were chairman of the board for Ford...
...with many semesters abroad, such a move would force undergraduates to acquire the familiarity with another country that comes only through first-hand experience. And as Bok hopes, these students also could act out their roles as undercover agents for American business, secretly conducting market research for IBM and Ford's export divisions...
...presidential race has come to resemble a marathon encounter session: long periods of tedium punctuated by embarrassing personal disclosures. The latest revelation came last week when Kitty Dukakis, 50, the seemingly self- assured wife of Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, publicly enrolled in the Betty Ford school of political candor. Her secret: 26 years of mild amphetamine dependency that ended in 1982 after she secretly entered a drug- rehabilitation clinic in Minnesota...