Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pragmatism makes Baker a perfect complement to the doctrinaire crusader in the White House. "I'm the President's point man here," Baker says. He and Reagan first became friends in 1976, when the Californian was campaigning in Tennessee for the Republican nomination. Although Baker supported Gerald Ford, he invited Reagan to his Huntsville home for dinner. It was a grace note that Reagan remembered, and a relaxed relationship blossomed...
Outside of politics, Baker's greatest passion is photography, a hobby that allows him to hone his skills as a detached observer even during an event like the presidential Inauguration. He is also fascinated by old cars; he owns a 1950 Packard, a 1951 Studebaker, a 1962 Ford convertible and a 1963 Chrysler. (But he is driven to Capitol Hill from his home in northwest Washington, promptly at 8:30 every morning, in the brown Cadillac that is one of the perks of his office...
...greater concern is the uncertainty over how to deploy MX, the next generation of land-based nuclear missiles. The Ford and Carter Administrations had planned to shuttle 200 MXs among thousands of shelters over a vast tract of Western desert. Reagan scrapped the scheme, proposing to store the first 36 missiles temporarily in existing silos. Congress rejected that idea. Now congressional impatience has hardened to outrage. Last month the Republican-controlled Senate Armed Services Committee refused to appropriate funds for the initial allotment of nine missiles (at $160 million each) until a permanent decision is made on deployment...
...company created a special unit to develop new cars. The notable results include the RX-7 sports car, which gets about 24 m.p.g. from its improved Wankel engine, and the GLC. That compact is known as the Familia in Japan and the 323 in other parts of the world. Ford markets a version of its own, called the Laser, in 44 Asian countries. While the car looks suspiciously like a Volkswagen Rabbit, there is one important difference: the GLC sells for about $5,475, while a Rabbit costs...
Today, however, Hiroshima-based Toyo is flourishing. Its 1981 profits reached a record $84.9 million, while sales of $4.9 billion made the firm the world's ninth largest automaker and the third biggest in Japan, behind Toyota and Nissan. About 10% of those sales went to the Ford Motor Co., which buys Toyo parts and cars and has owned 24.4% of the company since...