Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...welfare-reform plan, drafting an energy policy, tackling Government reorganization. But Carter has at least hedged on some of the other campaign pledges. In spite of his previous opposition to the construction of B-1 bombers, he has yet to announce he will halt the program inherited from Gerald Ford's budget. He has also abandoned the notion, barring a national emergency, of stand-by wage-and-price controls. On other issues, Carter has fudged his position. The vow to cut $5 billion to $7 billion in waste from the defense budget will not be fulfilled until next year...
Nonetheless there were some intriguing tidbits on the alphabetic menu. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal, when chairman of Bendix Corp., was the highest paid Cabinet member, with roughly $600,000 in salary and benefits for 1976. But he owned two singularly inexpensive cars: a 1973 Ford Pinto and a 1975 Honda. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano earned $505,490 from his Washington law firm, about twice what Secretary of State Cyrus Vance drew from his law firm on Wall Street. But Vance's assets-six Es, two Ds, three Cs, one B and two As (at least...
Financial officials attempt to justify shifting the University's financial burden onto students, claiming that other income sources have been drying up. The Nixon and Ford administrations slashed HEW grants and other government contracts; on the other hand, Harvard last year received more money from the government, corporations and other givers than any university in the country. The depressed stock market of 1973-74 put a dent in the University's endowment, but with the recovery last year Harvard's endowment regained its position as the nation's highest. At $1.48 billion the endowment is at its historical peak...
...known. Beyond lowering its voice about the M.I.A.s, the U.S. will almost certainly refrain from blocking a new attempt to seat Hanoi in the U.N. Another early move could be to drop the existing trade embargo against Viet Nam, a measure passed by Congress last year but vetoed by Ford...
Locker-Room Melee. Most hassled by the star surplus are Guards Kevin Porter, Chris Ford, Ralph Simpson and Eric Money, all of whom have been starters during their careers. The season was still young when Porter and Simpson began muttering "play me or trade me" threats. Porter, who led the N.B.A. in assists two years ago, was unhappy over losing his starting slot to Eric Money. To show his displeasure, he had begun standing off to one side, staring at the rafters and pointedly ignoring Brown during time-outs. On the bench, he also plunked himself down as far away...