Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most attention, Carter was well aware of the complaint by businessmen and some economists that the Federal Government is the biggest single contributor to inflation. With pride, he pointed out that his Administration had reduced the federal budget deficit, a prime contributor to inflation, from $66 billion in Gerald Ford's last year as President, to less than $40 billion in the current fiscal year. He pledged to cut it to "$30 billion or less" next year. As part of the effort to do so, he said he would veto any plan for any income tax cut beyond...
...inflation roared from little more than 1% in the mid-'60s to 4.2% in 1968. Richard Nixon grossly worsened a bad situation by also using deficit spending and then clamping on controls; prices soared after they were lifted rising 6.2% in 1973 and 11% in 1974. Gerald Ford, inheriting an economic mess as well as a moral mess, pursued stringent fiscal policies that brought inflation down to 5.8% in 1976, but only after the nation had suffered through a severe recession...
...spring of 1977, Michigan's Robert Griffin had had enough of the U.S. Senate, in which he had served for eleven years. He was depressed over the election defeat of Gerald Ford. He was upset by his loss of the job of Republican Senate leader by a single vote to Tennessee's Howard Baker. Griffin decided to retire from the Senate and return to his law practice in Traverse City. He then seemed to lose interest in the Senate, missing 216 roll-call votes last year, which placed him in a tie for the chamber's fourth worst attendance record...
...former member of FORTUNE magazine's board of editors and the author of highly acclaimed studies of race (Crisis in Black and White) and education (Crisis in the Classroom), Silberman began his Ford Foundation-funded research six years ago. His "working assumption," he told TIME, was that "the criminal justice system could make a huge difference." That proved overly hopeful. Police commissioners around the country, he learned, "simply do not know what to do to reduce crime." For example, expensive new communications systems have been widely installed to cut down the time it takes a police car to reach...
...could calculate better how to fatten them. The computers could read radio-telemetry signals on body temperature, heartbeat and respiration rates from transmitters swallowed by the cows or carried on backpacks. Already, an electronic entrepreneur named Marvin Marshall tours the dairylands of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio in a Ford Econoline van packed with IBM computer equipment. In two hours he will analyze a farmer's dairy cows and whip out a formula for feed calculated to permit each beast to produce the maximum amount of milk while remaining in glowing health...