Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jumped into his Toyota just as the creature's claws grabbed the door handle. Swerving left and right, the 17-year-old boy managed to shake the beast off. He shared his story with a few friends in nearby Bishopville. Then last month Mary Way reported that her Ford LTD was scratched and clawed near the swamp. Sheriff's deputies initially tied the two events together -- and Lizard Man was born...
...differences between the President and his would-be successor are matters of sensibility rather than substance, but they nonetheless signal that come January the Reagan Revolution could give way to the Bush Restoration, a return to power for the foreign-policy establishment. Brent Scowcroft, who served as Gerald Ford's National Security Adviser, calls Bush a "Rockefeller Republican." Scowcroft intends the label as high praise, but Republican conservatives have held it against Bush for years that he seemed to be from the same mold as Nelson Rockefeller, the champion of moderate Republicanism...
Although barely off the production lines, the resulting computers, called neural networks, have already started altering the way people think about artificial intelligence. Researchers at Ford Motor, for example, are exploring the possibility of using neural-network computers to find and fix potential problems in new autos. The U.S. Government last year invested $40 million in neural-network research, according to market analysts. Eventually, proponents say, the new technology will lead to computers that can reprogram themselves to deal with any contingency, in situations ranging from directing combat to planning a sumptuous meal...
James Schlesinger has dealt with national security for every President since Dwight Eisenhower. He was CIA director and Secretary of Defense in the Nixon and Ford Administrations, then Energy Secretary for Jimmy Carter...
While acknowledging that the Nixon pardonprobably hurt him politically, Ford said that "apresident can't stick his finger up in the air tosee what to do, they have to do what they decideis right and that's what I did [in deciding topardon Nixon...