Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fifty miles south of Washington, in rural Calvert County, Maryland, Dorsey's Gray's Ford truck and tractor dealership is on the verge of bankruptcy, "Damn worst I've seen since I've been in business," he matters. And the once-booming Calvert construction business is dormant now: New building permits are down 44 percent from last year, idling most of the county's predominantly black construction workers. Officially, unemployment in Calvert is 18 percent, making the current recession Calvert's most distressing economic situation in recent memory...
Most respected political analysts agree that the series of debates in 1960 between John F. Kennedy '40 and Richard M. Nixon cemented in the public's mind the images of a forceful, intelligent Kennedy and a shifty, unattractive Nixon. Gerald R. Ford, with his Poland-is-free gaffe in 1976, significantly damaged his respectability, weakening his campaign. Jimmy Carter avoided injury during the 1980 primaries by refusing to debate Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (DMass). Yet he did himself in, many say, by squaring off with Ronald Reagan one week before the general election. The lasting impressions of that session...
...fiscal 1983 weapons budget of $180.2 billion to the Senate floor. There it may face even rougher treatment as critics attempt to cut $11.3 billion in funds slated for the B-l strategic bomber and two nuclear aircraft carriers. The budget trimmers got some moral support from Gerald Ford, who said last week that it was "hogwash" to think that U.S. security would be endangered by a slowdown in weapons procurement. Said he: "The Soviet Union isn't going to attack the U.S. because you deliver in one fiscal year three less B-l bombers. That's baloney...
...happier not worrying about it." Looking back, he regrets putting so much of his life into the farm, forgoing any vacations. "I've never taken Frieda any place for over a day," he says. "Now we can't buy a car and our 1974 Ford is worn...
...from the wings, Nancy strode onstage-in a veritable riot of pantaloons, yellow rubber boots, an aqua skirt with red and yellow flowers, a feathered boa and a floppy feathered hat. Only the third First Lady to tread the Gridiron boards, but the very first to sing-Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter in years past had danced a few steps-Nancy gave the bandleader a confident nod, then in a clear and courageous voice delivered her own secondhand prose, written for the occasion by Sheila Tate, her press secretary, and White House Speechwriter Landon Parvin: "Even though they tell...