Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...selection of a U.S. President is not unusual. Starting with Franklin Roosevelt, TIME'S sixth Man of the Year, every President except Gerald Ford has been designated, most often as President-elect, since almost by definition anyone who enters and wins a U.S. presidential election dominates the year's news. Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter and Franklin Roosevelt were all chosen in their election years; Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Harry Truman in 1948 were both Presidents and Presidents-elect, since they had succeeded to the office through their predecessors' deaths. Johnson was named twice (again...
Cleveland, however, who was eighth in the first survey, was down to 17th in the Murray-Blessing rankings. Of contemporary interest was the fact that Ford was graded higher than Carter, and out of the nine Presidents since 1929, all except Nixon rated average or above. Nixon got some credit but not enough to keep him out of the lowest-rated group...
Auto companies are using a scaled-down version of the bankruptcy ploy on individual plants. When Ford Motor Co failed to extract concessions from the U.A.W. at its unprofitable Rouge steelmaking operations, it announced plans to curtail production sharply. Four days later, the union accepted concessions, and the mill was kept open. When U.A.W. workers at Ford's Sheffield, Ala., aluminum-casting plant did not accept 50% wage and benefit cuts or the company's offer to sell them the plant, it was closed last June...
...both Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger know, nothing could be stranger than the intricate power struggles of real-life politics, except perhaps the convolutions of the prime-time TV soap Dynasty. Ford, 70, and Kissinger, 60, will make cameo appearances next week on the program. It was filmed at an actual charity benefit for the Children's Diabetes Foundation. During the big party scene, Ford and Wife Betty meet Blake and Krystle Carrington (John Forsythe and Linda Evans), and Kissinger exchanges greetings with Krystle's nemesis, Alexis (Joan Collins). Will Blake charm Jerry into a profitable business deal...
...movies are a machine that makes art. But what are we to make of films in which the machine is the main attraction? Burt Reynolds may be at the wheel of his Trans Am, Harrison Ford can maneuver his Millennium Falcon in hyperspace, Roy Scheider may occupy the cockpit of the Blue Thunder helicopter, but the hardware is the hero. It knows neither fear nor fatigue; it does the job it is programmed to do and never complains; if it is destroyed, a comradely clone can take its place. For a nation that has cause to doubt that nobody does...