Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power to block Carter's warplane sale plan, and there is bound to be a big fight over it on Capitol Hill this spring. Eleven members of the 15-man Senate Foreign Relations Committee had previously warned Vance against the sale to the Saudis. In 1976 Gerald Ford had promised the Saudis the F-15, but decided not to proceed with the sale during an election year. Reminded of that commitment by Riyadh, Carter agreed to honor Ford's pledge. The President also felt it important to extend arms to Sadat at this stage; he reasoned that...
...Edsel Ford II, 29, an heir to the automobile fortune, on his new job as assistant managing director of Ford Australia: "There is no silver spoon in Ford. I think that's lucky. They treat me like any other...
Says Alan Greenspan, who was chairman of President Ford's Council of Eco nomic Advisers: "There seems to be some belief that you can exorcise this state of business mind by mass psychotherapy. But you can't because the attitudes are not irrational. When you are uncertain about the environment for investment, then you will not commit your money, just as someone will not run in the middle of the street blindfolded." Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources Inc., a Boston-based, computerized economic-forecasting firm, thinks that executives' caution should not even be described as "lack...
...because he lied. He had promised in the campaign to select attorneys on the basis of merit, not politics. Once in Washington, however, he found the promise too hard to keep; he owed too many favors. In Philadelphia it was the Rizzocrats who had helped him defeat Gerald Ford. It was the Rizzocrats who Marston had been chasing throughout his term. Carter was forced to play politics. But he compounded the embarassment with lies, and those in turn were compounded by conflicting stories at the Justice Department on the progress of Marston's investigation into dubious financial dealings in connection...
...Elliott sent Armando Garza-Sada home to slide rules and calculators early as he won the lop-sided match, 15-5, 15-7, and 15-8. John Fishwick only gave up eight points in all of his short-lived outing against Lloyd Benjamin. In the words of Manager White Ford, Fishwick "gave him the donut," scoring a 15-0, 15-5, 15-3 whitewash...