Word: forded
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Over eleven years Watt held Washington jobs that honed his expertise and his ideology. As a U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbyist, he worked to defeat all manner of environmental regulation. In the Nixon and Ford Administrations he served a well-rounded apprenticeship: as an Interior deputy in charge of water management, as director of the department's land-buying Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and, finally, as a federal power commissioner. As a result, Secretary Watt's technical mastery of his job is positively staggering...
...year-old Tulsa schoolgirl. "I was reading horse books then," says Hinton, who started using her initials so boys would also read her works. To date, her four gritty novels have sold 7 million copies, and all are in some stage of development for films. Francis Ford Coppola has finished shooting The Outsiders, and is currently making Rumble Fish. That Was Then, This Is Now has been optioned; Tex, starring Teen Idol Matt Dillon, has been released by Walt Disney Productions. The married Hinton, who owns a horse named Toyota, has no plans to write adult fiction. Says...
...after issue. The people who are doing this [to him] are basically Eastern Big Business Republicans." The main liberalizing Rasputin: White House Chief of Staff James Baker. His Texas origins do not make up for his Princeton education, and even worse is his management of two presidential campaigns, Gerald Ford's in 1976 and Vice President George Bush...
...insistence that press statements be less than 100 words long: "That way, Nixon said, he and not somebody else controlled how much of what he said got used." Gergen thinks of Nixon and Carter as two Presidents who boned up and documented a lot. Reagan, like Eisenhower and Ford, prefers to get his information face-to-face rather than from reading. "This is the most oral Administration I know of," Gergen says...
...protect against self syndrome, in which hundreds of millions of dollars may now have to be spent redesigning, retooling and testing to equip their cars with seat belts and air bags that drivers do not particularly want in the first place. Says Roger Maugh, director of auto safety for Ford: "We still feel that the best and most effective strategy is to get motorists to buckle up using the factory-installed seat belts for which they have already spent more than $14 billion over the years. When used, these belts provide overall safety as good as any passive device...