Word: forde
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jerry Ford, 78, walked to his spot with the gimpy stride of a man who had one artificial knee and was about to get another. Suddenly the old Ford Administration political warriors in that audience of more than 4,000 could remember him striding through the snows of Vladivostok in borrowed overshoes, headed for a meeting with Leonid Brezhnev...
Common sense -- and the laws of physics -- dictate that a large automobile will provide greater protection from injury in an accident than a smaller one. A crash test conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on a 3,900-lb. Ford Crown Victoria and a 1,900-lb. Subaru confirmed that logic. But Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group, claims that smaller cars are nearly as safe when they are equipped with air bags and that tests proving this were ignored by the Federal Government. The group accuses the government of playing politics with the test results in order...
...third-quarter deficit announced by Chrysler last week joins even worse figures from its domestic competitors. Ford's losses from July through September hit $574.4 million, while during the same time GM's cash tank leaked $1.1 billion. All in all, the Big Three have seen losses since the beginning of the year of $5 billion -- equivalent to the GNP of Luxembourg...
Impeachment does not have a nice ring. In fact, people hated Nixon so much that no president has used middle names--or even initials--since. Not Gerry Ford or Jimmy Carter (who actually requested once that history books call him "Jimmy" and not James Earl) or Ronald Wilson Reagan...
Morgan said that while waiting, he picked up a nearby phone, unobserved, and left messages at The Crimson office for Liam T.A. Ford '91-'92 and Stephen J. Newman '92, two of Morgan's friends and fellow Crimson editors. He said he then called Ford and Newman's room and left a message on their answering machine...