Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Benacerraf added he had also refused an earlier offer for the position last October when he was approached by officials of the Ford administration...
...yard, finally: two young adults on the verge of making decisions that will determine the course of their lives. As Ephraim, a young man who leaves Trinidad in frustration, Roland Smart communicates that anger forcing him to abandon his pregnant lover is justified. But as his lover, Karen Ford presents the other side of the same suffocating reality. He may be free to leave; she is trapped, forced to give in, obliged to abandon her dreams of self-respect and upward mobility...
...from satisfied with Carter's energy proposals are the Republican members-Alan Greenspan, who was President Ford's chief economic adviser; Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank and Murray Weidenbaum of St. Louis' Washington University. Their main complaint: the program's failure to put enough emphasis on increasing energy supplies by eventually lifting all controls on oil and gas and letting the market determine prices. Says Sprinkel: "It's backward economics. We're not allocating enough resources for investment." In addition, Greenspan fears that the program will...
...gentle hills east of Cologne -4,300 miles from Hinsdale-the people of Rösrath (pop. 21,000) are also enjoying the good life. The commuters include middle-management executives at the large Ford Motor Co. plant, professors at Cologne's famous university, and chemical engineers who work at the massive refineries near the city. About 30% of the families earn more than $21,000 per year-a cut above the average for the typical German suburb. Nonetheless, a lingering frugality engendered by the war years pervades Rösrath and makes the residents far more energy-conscious...
...families are not nearly as common as in Hinsdale, and the kind of mother who lives at the controls of her station wagon, chauffeuring around the small fry, is virtually nonexistent. Here most children walk l½ miles or farther to school. Leonore Carls, 50, shares the family Ford Consul with her husband, Hans, a Ford sales-promotion manager. As part of a car pool, he drives to work Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; she gets the car Monday and Friday. Together, the Carlses put a total of 11,000 miles a year on their lone auto-a figure that does...