Word: fords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Connally and Howard Baker placed in a tie for third, with 11%. When Ford voters are transferred to the remaining candidates according to their second choice for the nomination, Reagan's lead increases impressively...
Although Gerald Ford has declared that he will not be a candidate, he retired from the field with the support of 27% of Republicans and independents...
...leasing it away at favorable terms to the private oil bureaucracies. The federal government owns at least half of domestic natural resources, and the same figure probably holds for oil. Ralph Nader likes to tell audiences they already control a majority of American oil resources. A more conservative Ford Foundation estimate several years ago placed the figure for domestic oil and gas at about 40 per cent...
...Jennings is tough, but Darlene Beck-ford has a shot at taking her. She's really the only one who has a chance. She's been running extremely well, especially considering she was out for three weeks with an achilles problem. She could do it," coach Pappy Hunt said yesterday...
Growers unilaterally declared an impasse in the talks and negotiations broke down (The State Agricultural Labor Relations Board charged 28 growers with refusing to bargain in good faith). The employers hired slick public relations men (who ran the Reagan and Ford campaigns) to improve their public image. A favorite public relations tactic is placing deceptive full page ads in major newspapers portraying growers as advocates for farm worker human rights and the union as a threat to worker liberty. These are the same human rights advocates who opposed toilets in the fields and abolition of the short-handled...