Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Debts. If the request for a rehearing comes to naught, Mitchell will be the first U.S. Attorney General ever to serve a prison term. A friend of his told TIME that Mitchell had gone on hoping for a presidential pardon until last November, when Gerald Ford lost to Jimmy Carter. Mitchell has some investment income but is no longer allowed to practice law (he once earned $250,000 annually as a municipal bond lawyer), and friends say he is burdened by enormous debts...
...charge of reorganizing the Executive Office of the President, a pet program that was heavily emphasized during the campaign. He has been instructed to trim the professional political staff by at least one-third. Yet the White House staff is 560 today, compared with 540 when Gerald Ford first took office. When White House and Office of Management and Budget aides presented a reorganization blueprint to Jordan, they voiced doubts that the staff numbers could be kept down once the next election neared. Perhaps, they suggested, the President might concede that the totals could rise again. Replied Jordan...
...time-Carter the grinning lifelong Democrat; Burns the somber, smoke-wreathed Republican. Burns, after all, was Dwight Eisenhower's chief economic adviser, Richard Nixon's Counsellor and, though theoretically removed from politics when he was named Federal Reserve chairman in 1970, a close confidant of Gerald Ford's. During the campaign, Candidate Carter rapped Burns' Federal Reserve for its conservative monetary policies. He also made much of a proposal to make the term of the Federal Reserve head coincide with that of the President and hinted at otherwise curbing the independence...
...Burns has hardly become a key Carter adviser, however much Carter has come to respect him. Nor is Burns sure of his ground with Carter in the way he was with Ford, whom he had known for years. Overlooked in most of the speculation about the extent of Burns' clout in the new Administration is the possibility that Carter could be deftly stroking the Federal Reserve chairman in an attempt to influence him. Carter needs Burns' help if he is to meet his goal of balancing the budget by 1981. Carter also appreciates Burns' ties with businessmen...
...Kenobi, both the performances of the cast and the cast itself add up to a forgettable sum. Many of the actors' names appear in a film's credits for the first time or one of the first times as the Star Wars cast is ticked off: Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill. Admittedly, the quality of many of the characters imposes severe restrictions on the range of dramatic possibilities available to the actors; there are only so many ways that an actress can play the role of a Joan of Arc figure that is an unabashed stereotype, as Fisher probably...