Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...skepticism and low expectations is in sharp contrast with the national ebullience that surrounded Carter's beginnings as President. At that tune 47% of Americans felt the country was in good shape, compared with 18% who feel that way now. Moreover, Carter, though his electoral victory over Gerald Ford was far narrower than Reagan's victory last fall, arrived in office riding a larger wave of personal popularity than Reagan does now. Four years ago, 62% of the public expressed trust and confidence in Carter. Now just 48% feel that way about Reagan...
...arbitration commission. The hostages themselves are barred from filing suits against Iran. If they are to be compensated financially for their sufferings, the payments apparently will have to be made by Washington with American tax dollars. Says Brent Scowcroft, who was once National Security Adviser to President Ford: "Cutting off the right to sue is paying them off. That's extortion." Some critics also assail the U.S. commitment to help Iran find and recover assets of the late Shah and his family, vague and probably unenforceable as that commitment may be. Asks the Wall Street Journal: "Do we really...
...bargaining would have been ruled out, what was the alternative? James Schlesinger, who held a variety of Cabinet-level posts under Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter, has a blunt answer: "We should have sent forces into the area and delivered an ultimatum. If the Iranians did not respond, we should have punished them." The counterarguments to that are obvious: the use of force might have resulted in the death of the hostages, it might well have led to a superpower confrontation with the Soviet Union, it might have pushed Iran into the Soviet sphere and-most troublesome...
...addition to the good news from Washington, Chrysler has recently received encouraging reports from the marketplace. During the first ten days of January, sales rose by nearly 5% over the same period a year ago. By comparison, General Motors' sales dropped by 17%, and Ford's sank...
...troubles, as outlined in a report released last week by departing Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt. The report warns that the Japanese will continue to win a greater share of U.S. sales because of lower labor costs, superior productivity and better business-government relations. Goldschmidt, for example, suggests that Ford may one day be forced to move most of its production overseas, which would severely injure basic U.S. industries like rubber and steel...