Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of the 2,200 former top officials of the Ford Administration who lost their jobs when Jimmy Carter became President, unemployment has not been a terribly traumatic experience. Many are going back to old jobs. Others are parlaying Government service into new careers, or better jobs than they had before. A few seem to be in no hurry to decide which jobs to take...
Bitten by Potomac fever, many are trying to stay in Washington. John Marsh, Ford's White House Counsellor, and ex-Transportation Secretary William Coleman will practice law in the capital. Ending a 25-year career in the Foreign Service, Kremlinologist Helmut Sonnenfeldt will teach at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies...
...Well, I don't expect anything more from Washington now than I expected from the Ford Administration; namely that they take an interest in the course of peace in southern Africa and that they must do so in an attempt to stem Marxist-Communist takeovers in southern Africa...
...point, Meany managed to simultaneously skewer an old adversary from the Ford Administration and a new one in the Carter White House -Chief Economic Adviser Charles Schultze, who has expressed interest in wage-price restraints. Nodding in the general direction of Washington, Meany cracked, "A fella by the name of Alan Greenspan, he's still over there. But he's changed his name to Charlie Schultze." Meany, for all the talk of his retirement this year, still clearly enjoys his hoots and hurrahs...
...idea of a Cabinet-level energy department is hardly revolutionary; indeed, the DOE that Carter is proposing resembles one drawn up by the Ford Administration in its waning days. But it is a plain and practical proposal, attuned to the nation's current political and economic realities...