Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlin in 1972, Nixon ate Wheaties and smoked a pipe (Americans had not known he indulged). On another journey, Nixon sat with Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito on an old bunk bed in the marshal's restored birthplace in Kumrovec, swapping hard-time stories. When Jerry Ford had a fur hat clamped on his head by Brezhnev on the frozen plain near Vladivostok, he grinned, then immediately walked over to reporters and asked if they had heard the score of the big game back home: Michigan was playing Ohio State...
...replied in stratospheric fashion: "The good doctor is in the habit of thinking now and then, and he'll have to think this over carefully." His decision may well be no. He could make good money on the lecture circuit, in the manner of Henry Kissinger or Gerald Ford. He does not seem to regard Miller as a dangerous radical whose influence would have to be countered. And after having had the chairman's weight, Arthur Burns is not likely to settle for being just another governor Says Andrew Brimmer, a Reserve Board governor for more than half...
...tightly that the prime interest rate on bank loans to business shot up to an unheard-of 12% in 1974. And during the slow recovery from the recession. Burns kept money growth moderate, angering liberal Democrats in Congress and giving no help to the upcoming campaign of Gerald Ford, who left Burns pretty much alone. Burns' explanation: "I do not believe I exaggerate in saying that the ultimate consequence of inflation could well be a significant decline of economic and political freedom for the American people...
...there was no happy ending. The Turkish invasion force dug in, occupying the northern third of the island. Congress, over the objections of the Ford Administration, responded by cutting off American military supplies to Turkey. So it has continued for three years: Cyprus remains politically divided and economically shattered; Greece and Turkey, Politically divided, economically shattered. ostensible partners in the Atlantic Alliance, are enemies united only by their distaste...
...sometimes be a genius for the impossible. Certain leaders over the centuries have understood the necessity of breaking free from old patterns of custom, expectation, even divine ordination. Jefferson suggested as much: "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." Less elegantly, Henry Ford decided: "History is more or less bunk." Civilization of necessity operates by habit. But that process can groove the collective cortex into fatal designs-the ritual-hatreds of Arabs and Israelis, for example...