Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that everyone laughed when coach George Ford suggested that his team might win three or four Ivy games, and that he would be satisfied with such a result...
What caused the spending shortfall is still largely a mystery. Nathan 'theorizes that Ford Administration bureaucrats responded altogether too strongly to White House pressure to hold down the budget. Okun believes that departments and agencies estimated their spending at the highest levels foreseeable−which in fact were not met−to avoid any chance of having to apologize to the boss for overrunning their targets. There were also some mechanical delays in handing out federal contracts. For a while, some economists believed that the money not spent in 1976 would flow out in 1977, lessening the need...
Both Ends. The new team is expected to work well with Arthur Burns, who still has a year to go as chairman of the independent Federal Reserve Board. During the Nixon-Ford years, Burns was often pictured as a man intent on curbing inflation at an unnecessarily high price in lost growth. But Burns lately has engineered a drop in interest rates that should please Carter. Burns, says Walter Heller, is "going to stick to his general philosophy. But he is not about to ignore the election returns. Arthur barks and wags his tail. And the question is, which...
...cannot afford to take a chance with the health of this country." With those words. President Ford last March unveiled an ambitious effort to vaccinate Americans against a possible outbreak of swine flu this winter. Last week, after the latest in a series of setbacks, it was the health of the $135 million mass-inoculation program that seemed in jeopardy. Alarmed by a mysterious paralysis among some people who have received swine flu shots, federal officials indefinitely suspended the nationwide effort. Even if the shots are resumed-and people could be persuaded to take them-they may be too late...
...Like any other citizen," the judge said, "these officials are charged with the knowledge of established law and must be held accountable for personal misconduct." Halperin's suit was a civil action and therefore not covered by President Ford's pardon absolving Nixon of any criminal acts that occurred during his Administration...