Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roger Porter, assistant professor of Public Policy, will join Eizenstat in leading the mini-course, which will focus on case studies from the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations. Eizenstat has harshly criticized President Reagan's plans to dismantle many of the domestic programs established under Carter, calling the Republican's proposals "a fundamentally incorrect policy that redistributes income upwards...
...President is the world's most overburdened man, the Vice President is almost unemployed, his only constitutional duty being to preside decorously over the Senate.* The situation cries for a more equitable sharing of burdens. Gerald Ford, who has filled both jobs, publicly argued in TIME last November that the Vice President should be officially given all the powers of Chief of Staff...
...Wixted said the Ford Foundation gave the original grant because of interest in applying the techniques of dispute resolution--used until now mainly in settling labor disputes--to social issues...
...Ronald Reagan's gadgets are in place on the desk that John Kennedy retrieved from the White House basement. But a Remington bronze of a cowboy and the paintings on the curved walls are from the defunct presidency of Jimmy Carter. The huge grandfather clock installed by President Ford still thumps out its relentless rhythm. Beyond the tall windows, the sun slants across the South Lawn, where Thomas Jefferson had mounds graded to add visual interest. Fresh-cut flowers burst from a vase on the coffee table and a mug of jelly beans sits near a lamp...
...last week, was "to telegraph a message of change to the American people." Bell's zinging telegram: his department is withdrawing the regulations proposed last August requiring public schools to give bilingual instruction to children deficient in English. Bell, who served as U.S. Commissioner of Education under Gerald Ford, called the regulations an unwarranted Federal Government "intrusion on state and local responsibility." And he went beyond that to offer a blistering attack on the regulations as a symbol of the bloated Federal Government. The rules, he concluded, were "harsh, inflexible, burdensome, unworkable and incredibly costly...