Word: fords
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Dick Armey, who emerged last week as Washington's biggest obstacle to a minimum-wage increase, is the kind of guy Americans say they want in Congress. After 11 years in Washington, the former economics professor still drives his Ford pickup to work, refuses to wear a tuxedo to obligatory gala dinners and is a connoisseur of drive-through meals, which he devours between meetings in his north Dallas district. (McDonald's hamburgers are more efficient than Wendy's, Armey says, because "they don't drip.") He is as likely to quote Popeye--"I yam what I yam," he told...
This time, the game was settled in regulation, as a goal by junior co-captain Missy Ford between the goal-tender's arms with less than two minutes left iced a 6-5 Harvard victory...
...during WW II. Colby later headed Operation Phoenix, an infiltration strategy to dissuade and root out rural support for communist guerrillas during the Vietnam War. The operation resulted in sweeping arrests, torture and execution of suspected collaborators. Colby headed the CIA from 1973 to 1976 under Presidents Nixon and Ford. "He was important as a CIA director because he allowed a lot of the CIA's dirty tricks of the 60's and 70's to be revealed ," says TIME's Doug Waller. "He was the first agent of a kind of 'Glasnost' for the CIA, and was very unpopular...
...every presidential election from 1968 through 1988, the Democrats nominated a goody-goody (Hubert Humphrey, George McGovern, Jimmy Carter, Walter Mondale, Michael Dukakis). And they lost every election during those two decades except in 1976, when the Republicans also nominated a goody-goody (Gerald Ford). In 1992 the Democrats finally got--well, you might say cynical or you might say serious. They decided they wanted to win this time. So they nominated a man who is no one's idea of a goody-goody. They nominated a slippery politician. Not coincidentally, he is also a morally flawed character with personal...
...during WW II. Colby later headed Operation Phoenix, an infiltration strategy to dissuade and root out rural support for communist guerrillas during the Vietnam War. The operation resulted in sweeping arrests, torture and execution of suspected collaborators. Colby headed the CIA from 1973 to 1976 under Presidents Nixon and Ford. "He was important as a CIA director because he allowed a lot of the CIA's dirty tricks of the 60's and 70's to be revealed ," says TIME's Doug Waller. "He was the first agent of a kind of 'Glasnost' for the CIA, and was very unpopular...