Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the rest of the country has been slowed by a recession, the state of Michigan has been paralyzed by what some call a depression. The state's well-being depends on the automobile; with Chrysler faltering, and Ford and General Motors cutting back, Great Lakes State residents have been especially hard hit. Even after Draconian cuts in the state budget--including $100 million from appropriations for higher education--Michigan still faces a $150-million deficit...
...House plan to ease air-quality and safety regulations on automobiles (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). But Bush is no match for his boss as a political salesman. Said one uncharitable White House aide: "I forgot how miserable Bush is on television. He's got all the punch of Jerry Ford...
...interventions, whether in time of cold war or thaw, elicited from the West meaningful political and economic sanctions, to say nothing of military retribution. One of Brezhnev's diplomatic triumphs was the 1975 Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe at which 35 governments, notably including the Ford Administration, ratified the postwar order in Europe. De facto, the Iron Curtain and the Brezhnev Doctrine were, and remain, very much a part of that order...
...help from Japan cannot come too soon for Detroit. Chrysler continues to search for a merger partner, and last week Ford Motor Co. publicly rejected a suggestion that it combine with Chrysler. Ford estimated that its own losses for the first quarter of 1981 could approach $500 million, even worse than the $270 million that Chrysler is expected to lose during the same period...
President Reagan had planned to throw out the first ball in Cincinnati last week, the first Chief Executive to do so since President Ford in 1976, but since he was still in the hospital, the opening day ritual was skipped altogether. Explained the Reds' p.a. announcer: "There can really be no appropriate relief pitcher for the President of the United States...