Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plans and proposals, a certain number of voters will respond by not responding. "People are going to vote with their feet by not going to the polls," asserts Caddell, who anticipates an alltime low turnout. Others will focus all their attention on a single issue. Former President Gerald Ford, for one, worries that single-issue interest groups ? for and against abortion or gun-control or environmental regulations, etc.? will increasingly determine election outcomes. He told TIME Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate that such groups pose "dangerous ramifications for the two-party system." Business associations, he feels, are also...
Primarily on the basis of his gains in the field of foreign policy, and the general sense of moral leadership that came from his summit triumph, Carter has been able to turn around the results of hypothetical contests between himself and Gerald Ford. In trial heats polled in June and August, Ford came out ahead by eight percentage points. Today Carter would win 46% to 35% over his former opponent and carry all sections of the country. Carter would likewise beat Reagan, as he would have earlier this year; but perhaps because of his whirlwind tour on behalf of Republicans...
...There's just a limit to the price prospective homeowners can or are willing to af ford. It is simple economics that house prices can't climb faster than paychecks forever...
...heavy calendar of union bargaining. The VW strike is also unsettling other foreign firms that are thinking of starting plants in the U.S., notably Japan's automaking Toyota, Nissan (Datsun) and Honda. Says one Japanese automan: "If U.S. workers ask to get even with General Motors and Ford right away, I'm afraid no company will come here...
...Bronx sidewalks for undergraduate distinction at Harvard and found a home there (with time off to earn a Ph.D. at Oxford). Philosophically, Professor Feldstein is eclectic: liberal enough to have been a counselor to Candidate Carter in '76, sufficiently conservative to have been invited to join President Ford's Council of Economic Advisers in '74 (he turned down the bid). At 38, Marty Feldstein is one of America's three or four brightest young economists, and already he heads the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research...