Word: fords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...during the Reagan years, it has nonetheless shown steady growth over the last couple of years and it will likely continue this trend at least through next year's elections. The president is traditionally the figure who Americans give credit to or blame for the economy, as Ford, Carter, and Bush all found out to their distress. Clinton will inevitably benefit from a growing economy as Reagan did. An astonishing 51 percent of Americans (in a CNN poll, Nov. 10) feel they are better off now than three years ago. These voters are hardly the ones to vote...
...kind of bad star trip tabloid journalism has made all too familiar to modern audiences. The trouble for him is that the founding of the Betty Ford Clinic is over a century in the future. The trouble for us is that The Plainsman, in which Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur played these figures in accordance with the conventions of their time--as protagonists in something pretty close to a screwball comedy--is 60 years in the past. In other words Wild Bill was born too soon for professional help, and we, it seems, were born too late for the more...
...kind of liked the pats of butter," said Gary L. Ford '99. "They were easy, nice and flingable, good projectile weapons...
...growing consensus that gigantic black holes lurk at the core of many galaxies--including our own--was confirmed by Holland Ford, now at Johns Hopkins, and his collaborators, who used the Hubble to spot a superheated disk of gas spinning at a dizzying 1.2 million m.p.h. at the very heart of the galaxy M87, 50 million light-years from Earth. The only reasonable explanation: the gas is funneling, like water down a drain, into the gravitational pit of a black hole as massive as 2 million suns...
Bahcall has used the telescope to take pictures of quasars, starlike objects so bright they can be seen halfway across the universe. Most theorists think quasars are intimately related to giant black holes like the one Ford found; presumably their intense light comes from gas compressed with such force that it explodes in bright bursts of energy. That implies that every quasar should have a galaxy around it, but in several cases Bahcall found no clear evidence of one. "This," he said when he announced his observations, "is a giant leap backward in our understanding of quasars...