Word: developers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corporation's eleven-member board of directors, now all Reagan appointees, has balked at that, its funding requests have dropped from $399.9 million in fiscal year 1982 to $305.5 million last year. "My feeling is that if everyone assumes that ((legal aid)) is a federal responsibility, the opportunity to develop alternatives simply will not be encouraged," says Corporation Chairman W. Clark Durant III. When Congress refused this year to cut the corporation's budget further, to $250 million, the board actually hired lobbyists to press the lawmakers for less -- yes, less -- money...
...Gaza. A young Arab was killed by Israeli gunfire and seven others were injured, as authorities broke up a series of West Bank demonstrations. Days earlier, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin had held a clandestine meeting with four Arab leaders from the Gaza Strip as part of his campaign to develop a dialogue with a budding local leadership. The idea, he said, was to "get a sense of what should be done now that the violence has calmed down...
...company as a whole. Some of the facilities may work on a particular engine, while others may design and engineer common platforms -- the suspension and other undercarriage components -- for an entire family of autos. Ford of Europe, which has its headquarters in Brentwood, England, has been delegated to develop platforms for all three of Ford's compacts: the Tempo, the Topaz and the European Sierra model. At the same time, a team at Ford headquarters in Dearborn, Mich., is working on platforms for a new generation to replace the midsize Taurus and Sable and the European Scorpio. A Ford design...
...general Ford provides the styling while Mazda supplies engineering and manufacturing expertise. The first Mazda-engineered Ford, an $8,500 compact called the Mercury Tracer, appeared in March 1987 and was followed two months later by the two-door Festiva subcompact ($5,900). Last year cars that Mazda helped develop accounted for 3% of Ford's sales, and that percentage will rise substantially with the introduction of the Probe...
...efforts to persuade administrators to develop a "coherent plan that they would implement over a certain time that would gradually make the University accessible in certain areas, like the residence halls or the Yard" resulted largely in disappointment after long discussions and verbal promises, he says...