Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...banks." Moffitt and Isabel Letelier assert that without private bank assistance Pinochet could never have turned down a 1977 U.S. government offer of $27.5 million in economic assistance, a loan with attached human rights concessions. In 1976, the U.S. Congress, over the opposition of former President Gerald R. Ford, voted to stop all military assistance to Chile and curtailed economic assistance to a maximum of $27.5 million for the fiscal year 1977. In May of the same year, William Simon, then secretary of the Treasury, visited Chile and "congratulated Pinochet for bringing 'economic freedom' to Chile," Isabel Letelier and Moffitt...
...based on a routine which put me through college, although it didn't garner me much Respect, especially in light of the neighborhood and all. Stole the hubcaps off my mother-in-law, who was so old that she thought the mailman was just the Ford version of the Sedan de Ville...
Bombs at Bay, or the Dog that has not Barked so Far: Reflections on the Avoidance of Nuclear War Since 1945--McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation and former dean of the Faculty, auditorium of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity...
Some of the undergraduates' dissatisfactions may be of their own making, according to David Riesman'31, Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, whose studies of American higher education are basic works in the field. "There is something about Harvard which is idiosyncratic--its enormous allure brings many students here. I see many of them before they come, because they are the children of parents I know, or I'm supposed to know about higher education, and I say to them, given what you want out of college, and the fact that you're going on to med school...
Finally, Wriston is troubled that "success is no longer perceived by large groups of people as being success. It used to be that if you were Henry Ford and got three fellows and a monkey wrench and built a great company, people gave you flowers. Today, if you create a great company, people take potshots at you because they think that behind every success there must be some dirty secret...