Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Travelling in Virginia that week, Ford Professor Emeritus of Social Sciences David Riesman '31 visited Mary Baldwin College, a women's school, where "the students were telephoning their fathers on nearby Air Force and Army bases, asking if they should go home." These undergraduates feared that their particular country would be targeted by the Soviets because Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, a vehement anti-communist spokesman, had once attended an adjacent military academy, Riesman explains...
...perhaps, by the very act of delivering the speech, Reagan showed that he now realizes the success of any new Middle East policy requires his personal supervision-and the power of his office behind its execution. Says Joseph Sisco, who was a high State Department official under Nixon and Ford: "A visible U.S. presence is the key to progress. The substance of Reagan's speech was good, but his personal involvement is more than good; it is essential...
Sonnenfeldt chaired the session, which included Administration officials and about a dozen outside experts. Among those invited: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and two of his predecessors, Harold Brown and Donald Rumsfeld; Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to President Ford; and Norman Podhoretz, a neoconservative writer and Administration critic. "It's an effort to break out and listen, to avoid being caught in my cocoon," says Shultz...
...rates have come down even more sharply. The decline is also spreading to interest charges that are of concern to anyone hoping to buy a house or car. Government agencies last week lowered the interest charges on VA-or FHA-backed mortgages to 14%, and the financing subsidiary of Ford Motor Co. dropped the level of new car-purchase loans to an average of about 16%; all are down one point...
Even that last outpost of anorexia, the modeling agency, is being renovated into a new-woman spa. Observes Eileen Ford, who runs her own top agency in New York City: "Models used to look fragile, plucking their eyebrows and wearing pancake makeup. God, they looked terrible! Now I get girls in here who are so fit they've got legs like Muhammad Ah'. That's not ideal either, but it's part of the '80s look: a firm body, healthy hair and skin, and a look of serene determination in the eyes. Today, health is beauty. You can't have...