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James R. Ford

He built WAMN Radio Station, becoming Tallahassee's first black manager of a radio station.


ACLU v. Clapper

The named defendants include Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, NSA Director Keith B. Alexander, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Attorney General Eric H. Holder, and FBI director James B. Comey.

Dixonius siamensis

This is the type species of the genus Dixonius, named after James R. Dixon from Texas A&M University.

Doctoral Training Centre

The Cambridge Centre for Analysis (CCA) is a Centre for Doctoral Training which offers a PhD course in mathematical analysis at the University of Cambridge, directed by Professor James R. Norris and Professor Arieh Iserles.

Edward T. Hanley

Among the many notable individuals who Hanley counted among his friends were House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley, and former Illinois governor James R. Thompson.

Edwin Kneedler

From 1974 until 1975, he clerked for Judge James R. Browning on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Emergent organization

Alternatively, James R. Taylor wrote in 2000 his seminal book, The Emergent Organization, where he suggests that all organizations emerge from communication, especially from the interplay of conversation and text.

Eric P. Schwartz

At the Council on Foreign Relations, he directed the Independent Task Force on Post-Conflict Iraq, working closely with co-chairs Thomas R. Pickering and James R. Schlesinger.

Gerald J. Ford Stadium

The stadium is named after Gerald J. Ford (who should not be confused with former U.S. President Gerald R. Ford), a billionaire banker who provided most of the funding for its construction.

Gleaves Whitney

In his current position as director of the Hauenstein Center, he has cultivated many institutional partnerships—e.g., the National Park Service, Houston Museum of Natural Science, and the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum—and numerous ongoing professional partnerships—e.g., H. W. Brands, Richard Norton Smith, William Barker, and George Nash.

Goodyear Polyglas tire

Also in the 1973 country song "Lord, Mr. Ford" performed by Jerry Reed, he refers to a "metal monster with Polyglas wheels".

Gray checkered whiptail

The epithet dixoni is in homage of renowned herpetologist James R. Dixon, which leads some sources to refer to it as Dixon's Whiptail.

J. B. Ford

The Holmes sailed into the Duluth piers past the broken and battered wreck of the Pittsburgh Steamship Companies SS Mataafa which wrecked while trying to enter the piers and subsequently grounded and broke her back on the beach just a few yards from the shore, 9 of the Mataafa crew perishing in the wreck giving history the name Mataafa Storm.

James Lucas

James R. Lucas (born 1950), businessman and author, known as Jim

James R. Barton

Barton was born in Howard County, Missouri, emigrated to Mexico in 1841 and moved to Los Angeles in 1843.

James R. Domengeaux

In 1968 Domengeaux accepted an appointment from Louisiana Governor John J. McKeithen, his fellow Democrat, to preside over a new state-charted organization called the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, commonly known by the acronym CODOFIL.

Domengeaux did not seek reelection to Congress in 1948; instead he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in a race ultimately won by Russell B. Long, son of the legendary Huey Pierce Long, Jr. He was succeeded in the House by the freshman State Senator Edwin Edward Willis of St. Martinville, the seat of St. Martin Parish.

James R. Heath

When Heath was a graduate student at Rice University, he ran the experimental apparatus that generated the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the three senior members of the collaboration: Robert F. Curl and Richard E. Smalley of Rice University and Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex.

James R. Norris

He has made contributions to areas of mathematics connected to probability theory and mathematical analysis, including Malliavin calculus, heat kernel estimates, and mathematical models for coagulation and fragmentation.

James R. Reid

James R. Reid resigned for health reasons in 1904, and was succeeded as president by Dr. James M. Hamilton, an economist.

James R. Stewart

James Stewart G.S.A. Ph. (October 1, 1903 – April 30, 1964) was born in Morehead, MS, the son of a wealthy plantation owner; his uncle Professor William Stewart taught in Centreville, MS. He began school in Morehead and moved to Cleveland by 1915 where he studied art and commercial business.

James R. Von Ehr II

Von Ehr is the former chief executive of Zyvex corporation, the world first molecular nanotechnology company, which he founded in 1997, and which later split into four branches (Zyvex Technologies, Zyvex Instruments (acquired by DCG Systems, Inc.), Zyvex Labs, and Zyvex Asia), and current CEO of Zyvex Labs and chairman of Zyvex Technologies.

James R. Wait

Between 1948 and 1951, he worked for Newmont Exploration in Jerome, Arizona, where his research led to several patents in both IP and EM methods of geophysical prospecting.

James R. Winchester

Winchester currently resides in Chickasha, Oklahoma, with his wife, State Representative Susan Winchester and their son, Davis.

James R. Young

He was the Chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the War Department in the 57th United States Congress.

Jimmy Lile

In addition to creating the Rambo knives, Lile designed and made several Bowie knives that he presented to Governor Bill Clinton and U.S. Presidents Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, and Gerald R. Ford, Jr. Other owners of his work included John Wayne, Peter Fonda, Fess Parker, Bo Derek, and Johnny Cash.

Joe Ford

Joseph M. Ford (Dearborn City Council, 1912–1954), member of the Dearborn, MI City Council from 1945-1953

Joseph M. Ford

He is the original sponsor of Camp Dearborn initiative and a major part (championing and fighting for two years) of its acquisition and development.

Lightweight Fighter program

To reflect this new, more serious intent to procure a new aircraft, along with its reorientation toward a fighter-bomber design, the LWF program was rolled into a new Air Combat Fighter (ACF) competition in an announcement by U.S. Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger in April 1974.

Lonely Are the Brave

The Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA gave the film a "Golden Reel Award" for "Best Sound Editing" (Waldon O. Watson, Frank H. Wilkinson, James R. Alexander, James Curtis, Arthur B. Smith), in a tie with Mutiny on the Bounty.

Magnetic levitation

1961 James R. Powell and BNL colleague Gordon Danby electrodynamic levitation using superconducting magnets

Mark Ford

Mark M. Ford, American author, entrepreneur, publisher, real estate investor, filmmaker, art collector, and consultant to the direct marketing and publishing industries

Michael C. Ford

The motif of many of Ford's works, be it collaborative cd recordings or written poetry is that he resurrects iconic figures ranging from actreses Susan Hayward, Dorothy McGuire to legendary jazzmen such as Charlie Parker and Charles Mingus.

MillsporT

Founded in 1975 by James R. Millman, a 25-year-old event marketing executive with Philip Morris, Inc., Millsport gained notoriety and national prominence with its involvement in Olympic sponsorship in the 1990s.

Nellie Fox

The group grew to as many as 600 members, including Richard M. Daley, James R. Thompson, George Will and several former MLB players.

Next Generation Air Dominance

The aircraft must be capable of operating from Navy Nimitz-class and Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers.

Nutt Bluff

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) at the suggestion of Arthur B. Ford, leader of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) geological party in the Dufek Massif, 1976–77, after Constance J. Nutt, geologist, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, a member of the USGS party.

Pat Hayes

In the middle 1990s, while serving as president of AAAI, Hayes began a series of attacks on critics of AI, mostly phrased in an ironic light, and (together with his colleague Kenneth Ford) invented an award named after Simon Newcomb to be given for the most ridiculous argument "disproving" the possibility of AI.

Phillip R. Ford

As an actor Ford has appeared in San Francisco in the title role in Behind the Candelabra – My Life with Liberace (2002) a play adapted by Jennifer Blowdryer from the memoir of Liberace chauffeur/paramour Scott Thorsen.

Randall Jahnson

The label released four albums: Civilization and Its Discotheques by The Fibonaccis, Bigger than Breakfast by Slack, Three Gals, Three Guitars by The Del Rubio Triplets, and Motel Cafe by Michael C. Ford.

Robert Kostelka

Newly-converted Republican State Representative James R. Fannin of Jonesboro, who is term-limited in the House, is considered a leading prospect to seek Kostelka's seat.

Robert W. Ford

After one year in Lhasa, he was requested to go to Chamdo, capital of eastern Tibet (Kham), to establish a radio link between Lhasa and Chamdo.

Sam C. Ford

Ford died in Helena on November 25, 1961, and he is interred at Forestvale Cemetery, Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana USA.

Scarlet tiger moth

The three morphs occurring in the population at the Cothill reserve in Oxfordshire, Britain, have been the subject of considerable genetic study (McNamara 1998), including research by E.B. Ford, R.A. Fisher and Denis Owen.

Scott Ford

Scott T. Ford, president and chief executive officer of Alltel

The Victors

UM alumnus Gerald R. Ford, the 38th President of the United States, often had the Naval band play the fight song prior to state events instead of "Hail to the Chief".

Thomas Ford

Thomas H. Ford (1814–1868), American Republican politician in Ohio

Tony Graffanino

In 2002, he coordinated and led baseball clinics for boys and girls from Mercy Home at U.S. Cellular Field and signed autographs at the James R. Thompson Center to promote the need for organ donors.

Trevor D. Ford

He has written several popular introductions to Peak District geology, a definitive study of the local fluorite Blue John, as well as numerous cave guides.

United States Attorney

It was organized by Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judge James R. Browning, who also served as its first chief.


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