Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson, taking Dartmouth rather lightly, had several people swimming in races that were not their normal events. Off-event victories included the 200-yd. butterfly, in which Tim Ford and Bill Bird finished first and second, and the 1000-yd. freestyle, in which Dave Barnes and Dave Berkoff took the top two spots...
While President Reagan believes in Star Wars, he also appears sincerely committed to meaningful arms control. The problem is how he can have both, since the Soviet Union may walk away from any negotiations that leave Star Wars off the table. Warns Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser under Gerald Ford and sometime consultant on arms control to the Reagan Administration: "The Geneva talks won't get far. If the U.S. refuses to put SDI (the Strategic Defense Initiative) on the table, the Soviets have the option of making a scene or agreeing to a minor, second-rate treaty...
...that also examined the impact of sweeping tax reform and budget-cut plans, board members unanimously predicted that the economy will retain its forward momentum and avoid a recession in the year ahead. Said Alan Greenspan, a New York consultant who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford: "There is no credible evidence that we are on the edge of a significant cracking of the system...
...because he had only minimal influence on policy. He was succeeded by Harvard's Martin Feldstein, the CEA chairman from October 1982 until last July. Unlike such previous advisers as Arthur Burns and Alan Greenspan, who sometimes disagreed with official policy behind closed doors in the Eisenhower and Ford Administrations, Feldstein broke ranks in public, calling for a tax increase and warning that the federal deficit could throttle the recovery. Months before Feldstein resigned his post "the CEA was frozen out by the rest of the White House," says a senior Treasury official. The CEA has languished without...
Instead, director and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola drags his audience on a fragmented, flat voyage through the JAZZ age cinematically unjazzed...