Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were spending millions of dollars to defeat the treaties, the Establishment group was raising hundreds of thousands of dollars on its own, both from direct-mail solicitations and from large corporations with interests in Latin America, like the Chase Manhattan Bank, United Brands and Occidental Petroleum. Meanwhile, former President Ford began speaking out on behalf of the treaties, and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger worked on key Senators. Together, they made it easier for moderate Republicans to resist the Reagan-led opposition. "If Kissinger had trucked this one," says one White House aide, "we would have been in serious...
...Ford Foundation last month gave the Divinity School a $9500 grant to evaluate the school's five-year-old women's studies program...
...Ford Foundation agreed to support the study because the Divinity School may provide a model for other schools trying to integrate women's studies into the curriculum, Buchanan added...
...theologically inclined Democrat, Omar Burleson of Texas, was moved to ask: "If a three-martini lunch is so evil, why is this half an evil all right?" Of the seven committee members who questioned the plan, only Democrat Harold E. Ford of Tennessee supported the cut, and even he forced Blumenthal to admit that one result would be the loss of some 50,000 to 70,000 restaurant jobs. When the hearing ended, the Congressmen left no doubt that if anyone restricts the three-martini lunch, it will not be Congress...
...shot in Viet Nam." For a decade the entertainer was unofficially banned from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. But last week she was back, along with several hundred other guests, including her daughter, Kitt McDonald, 16. The occasion: a reception in honor of the tenth anniversary of the restoration of Ford's Theater. "First I thought I shouldn't go," said Kitt, 50, who attended between performances in the musical Timbuktu! at Washington's Kennedy Center. "Now I'm very glad I went. Mr. Carter looked at me and he smiled as though he understood...