Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rapid Rate. The first-half surge is a bit of beginners' luck for the Carter Administration, which took over at the ragged end of a painful business slowdown and, without having made any radical changes in the Ford Administration's policy, now finds itself at the helm of a briskly moving economy. Few experts expect the first half s rapid rate of growth to continue through the second half-though nobody is forecasting anything like a recession. Charles Schultze, the President's chief economic adviser, forecasts a steady if unspectacular 5% rate of expansion for the rest...
...interstate gas, with the now familiar result: the major oil companies began to import cheaper fuel from the Middle East, and domestic exploration declined. What convinced many oilmen that domestic exploration would again be worthwhile was the explosion in world oil prices and the campaign promises by both Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter to deregulate natural-gas prices...
Marxist sociologists suggest that we see ourselves in the cars we choose. Young, assertive, loud, one is a Triumph or a Porsche. As we become more burdened, we evolve into Ford station wagons. Last seen of all that ends this strange eventful history, a man becomes a settled sedan: perhaps a Seville. Perhaps a used 1967 Chevy...
...Clutch. Shift. Now gas, clutch, gas again. Downshift. You are learning how to double-clutch. You are learning to control a car. You cease to hear the swallows. Your universe becomes an asphalt strip. It will be afternoon before Couture regards you as competent to corner in a Formula Ford...
Engaged. Glenn Ford, 61, perdurable, softspoken, intense Hollywood leading man, and Actress Cynthia Hayward, 30, his three-year flame. The pear-shaped diamond that the twice-married Ford earlier bestowed upon his bride-to-be was rumored to have cost more than the actor's $400,000 Beverly Hills house. Said Ford at the time: "I gave my lady a ring. A gentleman doesn't discuss how much things cost...