Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...capitalize on changing white attitudes, the San Fernando Valley Fair Housing Council decided last spring to invite blacks to shop for homes in the valley. Aided by grants from the Ford Foundation and local real estate people, the council launched a $92,000 publicity campaign, distributing glossy brochures in the wealthier Los Angeles subdivisions where black professionals tend to cluster. The brochures showed blacks playing tennis on valley courts and partying on the sundecks of $60,000 ranch homes. Black radio stations broadcast a jingle urging Los Angeles listeners to "Move on in, move on into the valley...
...became inextricably entangled with the matter of American strength and pride-of patriotism v. surrender. Yet for all the opposition, the pact has the backing of a very wide spectrum of informed opinion, including conservatives like Bill Buckley and John Wayne. Four successive Presidents-Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and now Jimmy Carter-have backed negotiations and pushed them along. Faults may be found with an imperfect document in a not so perfect world, but its basic realism has not been questioned by those with some familiarity with the issue. Why, then, the rancorous debate? Says former Secretary...
...budget ahead of expensive new social programs, and disavowed any thought of imposing wage-price controls or even guidelines. Perhaps equally important, as Carter frequently observes, he is a former businessman himself. During the campaign and for a while after the Inauguration, even many executives who voted for Gerald Ford did indeed warm to Jimmy Carter as they rarely do toward any Democrat. But now a severe problem of confidence has arisen between the President and a business community that is increasingly suspicious of and apprehensive about...
...yank the economy around. It doesn't give anybody very clear signals," expansionary or deflationary. It also is not a very inspiring vision for the country and is a difficult policy for a Democratic President to proclaim publicly, because it sounds so much like the strategy that Gerald Ford might have followed...
...think it is accurate to say that between me and President Ford, only about 5% of the business leaders of the nation supported me. So it is not a derogation of support that previously existed. It is a struggle on my part to increase my support within the business community. But I am their President, and they want me to succeed. I feel very close to them...