Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flow. "There's an inordinate number of people with serious mental-health problems," says Social Services Director Edwin Sarsfield. The Zodiac killer, who claims in letters that he murdered 37 people in the '60s and '70s, was never caught. Sara Jane Moore tried to shoot Gerald Ford in San Francisco. The Symbionese Liberation Army was nurtured there. Dan White, the baked-potato vendor and former city supervisor, shot and killed Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone in city hall. Every couple of weeks or so, someone leaps off the Golden Gate Bridge into the deep blue...
...concept was developed to handle public policy questions by the Ford Foundation and Kettering Institute in the 1970s and while it is still only sparsely used. Susskind is sure it can tackle almost any public policy problem. This spring the Program on Dispute Resolution bid for a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Social Services to examine the way the Partnership Forum for Children and Family Services distributes funds for social-services around the state. Susskind's group is expected to be awarded the contract for the $75,000 protect tomorrow
Describing some of the other presidents he has known, he says Gerald R. Ford was "extremely agreeable," and President Reagan is a "miracle man. He is the only President in my time able to separate personality from policy." On the negative side, he points to Lyndon B. Johnson as the "greatest disappointment" of the many dignitaries he has met. "He was a superb majority leader and was able to get more progressive legislation adopted than [Franklin D.] Roosevelt, but in the end he didn't have what it took to resolve the greatest issue of his time, the Vietnam...
...night in Tennessee, when James Rums Agee was six years old, his father drove off the Clinton Pike. One wheel of his Ford was still spinning in the air when the first witness arrived. Jay Agee lay face down about a foot from the car, his clothes scarcely mussed. The only sign of violence was a small cut on the chin...
...Relle and Jamie Hanson will row for Team Canada. Mike Miao '84 will swim for Taiwan, Julian Bott '84 will swim for Great Britain, and Tim Ford for Australia...