Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN EARLY '70s Black funk music met Abba, disco was born. Did it grow out of the joy that met Nixon's abdication? Was it a defense against Ford-induced boredom? Or was it somehow related to skateboarding and pop rocks? The first "disco" song is equally hard to pinpoint, but Pablo Cruise probably had something to do with...
...world of the arts and entertainment, where sexual exoticism in general is more tolerated than in society as a whole. Virtually every arts institution has suffered its losses, and the community is on guard. "Anyone who's dating in the fashion community worries," says a lingerie model with the Ford agency. "You just don't know." Before engaging in sex with a man, she dates him five or six times, and, in an effort to protect herself, asks for a complete sexual history and finally insists that he use a condom. O.J. Elledge, a former National Ballet of Canada dancer...
...After being whisked about in Chaika limousines to meetings with Gorbachev and other leaders, the group was cautious but impressed. "The Soviets are much, much more open than when I negotiated with them in the past," said Henry Kissinger, who served as Secretary of State for Presidents Nixon and Ford. Concurred Harold Brown, Jimmy Carter's Defense chief: "It's really quite a remarkable change...
...laid off 6.5% of its 578,000 workers since 1981 and announced plans to close twelve major plants by 1989. At the same time, GM will reduce the number of managers and other salaried workers by 25% by the fall of 1989. Similar moves are under way even at Ford, which earned $3 billion in 1986 to overtake GM as the most profitable American automaker. Ford plans to cut its salaried payroll by about...
...come you don't see any bald men among the top candidates?" asks the hair stylist. Good point. Baldie Ike made his mark in the military and then defeated Baldies Taft and Stevenson on his way to the White House. End of the baldie run.The barber almost saved Gerald Ford in the campaign of 1976. He had Ford dump the Vitalis, and then he trimmed the President closer on the sides and in the back, poufing up the thinning top. But by that time Ford had pardoned Nixon, and not even Pitts' magic could save...