Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon, all our progress of the last three years would be at risk." The Fed governor said the Reserve Board might gently nudge up short-term interest rates, now at about 9%, to the 10% range. Many private experts, including Alan Greenspan, who was chief economic adviser to President Ford, agree that the economy can withstand a small hike in interest rates. The recovery could be cooled, Greenspan believes, without being crushed...
...just to get into a room with telephones and telex transmission machines, with further costs for actually using the facilities; up to $150 a night for double hotel rooms or, when they were full, $45 a night for space in a youth hostel; $230 a day for a Ford Granada car and driver; up to $260 to ride in a press bus following the Pope along his route; $1,350 to ride in a Soviet M12 helicopter for three hours (which almost certainly meant landing far away from where the Pope touched down). Television reporters ran up individual tabs...
...record involves an epidemic that never happened. In 1976, swine flu broke out at Fort Dix, N.J., killing one soldier. Health officials worried about the similarity of the virus to one that had caused the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 500,000 Americans. At President Gerald Ford's urging, a $100 million program was rushed into being to immunize people across the country. Not only did no epidemic break out, but 100 or so people came down with a syndrome, apparently connected to the vaccines, that caused partial paralysis. Ninety million unused doses were left over. Officials...
...edging into view. He is bankrolling the Michigan Panthers, one of the entries in the infant U.S. Football League. In the business world, Taubman's real estate acumen is legendary. In 1977 he and some investors, including friends like New York Investment Banker Herbert Allen Sr. and Henry Ford II, outbid Mobil Corp. and paid $337 million for the Irvine Co., which owned 77,000 acres of mostly vacant land south of Los Angeles in Orange County. Six years later Taubman and his partners cashed in on the run-up in the housing market and sold the property...
...brother William, 65, who was a national security aide to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. William Bundy is retiring, and last week a successor in his image was named: William Hyland, 53, one of the nation's foremost Sovietologists and a national security adviser to Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter...