Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about to crush the filibuster, Abourezk scoffed, "Ah, he wouldn't do that." Metzenbaum asked Senator Edward Kennedy about the same rumor; Kennedy too expressed disbelief. Mondale, meanwhile, was also busy buttonholing four Senators considered soft in their support of deregulation: Democrats Quentin Burdick of North Dakota, Wendell Ford of Kentucky and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona; and Republican John Chafee of Rhode Island. The Vice President told them that the President would see them, one by one, if they wished; all four accepted the offer and were whisked off in waiting White House cars...
Failure to develop a national energy policy "could truly make the Great Depression look like a joyride," Carla A. Hills, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under former President Gerald R. Ford, said yesterday at a press conference at the Institute of Politics...
Carla A. Hills, who was Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under former President Gerald R. Ford, arrived at Harvard yesterday for a two-day stay as a visiting fellow of the Institute of Politics...
...Henry Ford Skinner isn't. Despite Skinner's innovative writing techniques, the first volume of "Particulars of My Life," his autobiography, could use an overhaul. I haven't read the recently-published second half, which follows Skinner from the start of his graduate work at Harvard up to the present...
...price rises, agricultural shortages, and production technology in general. He's performed experiments on DNA, especially in relation to environmental adaptations. The price for the lecture is steep: $5 for students and $7.50 for student couples. But this fee gets you in free to all lectures sponsored by the Ford Hall Forum, which is sponsoring Commoner. The forum's series is worth looking into; last week, the forum had Larry Flynt, publisher of "Hustler," and many of their speakers are equally big names...