Word: forde
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many of America's greatest booms have taken place against a backdrop of unimpressive presidents. Ronald Reagan's intellect was always held under high suspicion, yet Reagan knew enough to remove the confiscatory tax rates and inflation that were squelching investment and entrepreneurship under Nixon, Carter and Gerald R. Ford. The big posthumous tax cuts proposed by John F. Kennedy '40 made the 1960s the first decade without recession. Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, both "do nothing" presidents not renowned for mental prowess, were the stewards of the great 1920s boom when GNP increased by more than half...
...Lights On. Hip-hop followers probably remember him from the 1990s as the frontman of the proudly uncouth, roughneck trio House of Pain. After four years with that group, he quit, dropped out of music, changed gears and then scored a surprise hit with his 1998 solo debut, Whitey Ford Sings the Blues. That record broke all the rules, using acoustic guitars, rapping, blues riffs and elements borrowed from Johnny Cash and Neil Young to create a striking hip-hop offshoot that sounded tough and folksy at the same time. The songs were about working people and the small struggles...
...addition to a grant from the Ford Foundation, Dunn said Radcliffe finished the campaign with private donations to endow several fellowships and professorships...
...debate's the thing. From Gerald Ford, prematurely liberating Poland in 1976, to George Bush, testily checking his watch in 1992, debates between presidential candidates have often proved to be a tipping point in ever-so-tight races like the one we're following right...
...writers, a reality check on what the candidates say about the issues, an on-line poll, voter reactions in the battleground states, our spiffy online voter game, the Candidator, and a photo album of great presidential-debate moments that will finally reveal who yanked the audio during the second Ford-Carter debate, bringing the whole darn thing to a standstill for 27 minutes...