Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlin seems intent on formally concluding the provisional SALT II agreement reached by Gerald Ford and Brezhnev at Vladivostok...
...Fritchey, who worked in Harry Truman's Administration and was once Adlai Stevenson's press secretary, wrote that he had warned his liberal compatriots that Carter was the first true businessman to become President, and it would not have surprised him to have heard Carter criticize Gerald Ford as a man who never met a payroll...
These switches produced some odd shifts in the board's usual conservative-liberal arguments. Grinning broadly, Alan Greenspan, a Manhattan business consultant who was President Ford's staunchly conservative chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, pronounced himself "probably the happiest of all the board members" with Carter's economic policies; no one disagreed. On the other hand, Democrats Walter Heller of the University of Minnesota and Arthur Okun of the Brookings Institution, who usually back each other up, fell into some good-natured jousting over the wisdom of Carter's dropping the tax rebate. After...
...unease about Carter's economic performance. Heller, Nathan and Pechman believe that the economy could use still more stimulus to bring down unemployment faster. They note that Carter is now proposing a fiscal 1977 budget deficit of $48.7 billion-$8.5 billion less than the one projected by Gerald Ford...
...problem of his own making: finding a new chief for the Justice Department's antitrust division to replace Donald I. Baker, who left last week. Baker, who demanded jail sentences for price fixers, loved the job but was let go mainly because he was a holdover from the Ford Administration...