Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Detroit underestimates the new challenge. Says Ford Chairman Donald Petersen: "The Koreans are bound to be one more very unsettling dynamic in the worldwide car market." He believes the Japanese will export more up- scale models to the U.S. and leave the less expensive sector to Korea...
Hyundai is only the first of several Korean companies that are eyeing the American market. Daewoo, a firm that is 50% owned by General Motors, hopes to be selling 80,000 cars in the U.S. in 1987. Kia, a Korean conglomerate, could link up with Ford, and Chrysler has held talks with Samsung, another firm with designs on the U.S. market. Maryann Keller, an auto-industry expert with Vilas-Fischer Assoc. in New York City, predicts that imports from such countries as South Korea, Taiwan, Mexico and Brazil will one day control the important U.S. market...
...president in recent years could possibly have been king. John F. Kennedy might have made a decent prince, but Jimmy Carter on his peanut farm? Richard Nixon whining about Checkers on national TV? Gerald Ford? Imagine how foolish they would look with ermine robes, crowns, and sceptres--not to mention the difficulties which mounting a throne might present poor King Gerald. No, they could not be kings. But in Ronald Reagan we have a rare, historic opportunity. As they say in the movies, it may be crazy, but just might work...
...atypical California rock musician, with a quirky sense of humor. The best scene of the entire movie begins with the pursuit of Morgan by Nick's car (the same one which demolished his bike). Just at the moment when you think he will be killed by the raging Ford Mustang, out pops Jimmy from the driver's seat! He obtained it from Nick's brother. The two boys pick up Frankie and a friend, and crash a country club party in the "Valley," with all the predictable play on differing socioeconomic backgrounds. Furthermore, Jimmy's rock music background forges...
Reagan's plans for Monday started with another prayer service, this time at St. John's Episcopal Church. He and the First Lady were to be escorted by motorcade to the Capitol Building by 10:30 a.m. by Senators Charles McC. Mathias and Wendell Ford, the chairman and a minority member respectively of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. The split-second Inaugural script, worked out in rehearsals staged with military personnel standing in for the Reagans, called for the swearing-in to begin just before noon. The oath of office was to be administered by Chief Justice Warren...