Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest task will be replacing graduated linebackers Joe Azelby and Andy Nolan--both three-year starters--and then finding a defensive tackles to line up opposite senior standout Barry Ford...
DEFENSIVE TACKLE (2)--Two-year letterman Barry Ford will hold down one tackle slot. The 6-ft., 3-in., 218-lb. senior is the only returning starter on the defensive line. Ford appeared in all 10 games his sophomore year, but missed four last season because of an abdominal injury. The other defensive tackle slot will go to junior Bernie Guckguexian, senior Peter Mackle or junior Dennis Vavassis...
...limit the number of high-quality, attractively priced Japanese autos that Americans can buy. Industry leaders are intent on holding down labor costs to keep their cars competitive with the imports. Says GM Chairman Roger Smith: "Back in the '40s and '50s, the concerns were GM vs. Ford and vs. Chrysler. What happens here now affects GM vs. Toyota, vs. Volkswagen, and vs. everyone else." Ford Chairman Philip Caldwell puts it differently but the message is the same: "It's a global game now. At the end of the day we all have to be competitive...
...pace of the talks quickened last week, the two sides remained far apart. GM and Ford delivered initial proposals that made scant reference to either guaranteed job security or wage hikes, two key worker issues. Complained Stephen Yokich, the U.A.W. chief Ford bargainer: "We're not playing in the same ballpark." In response, the U.A.W. executive board declared both GM and Ford to be potential strike targets, holding open the option of later zeroing in on one firm if bargaining strategy so dictated. Pulling workers off the assembly lines at even a single company could prove costly; when...
...generation, the horseless carriage remained an exclusive possession of the rich, an ideal object of conspicuous consumption, a perfect excuse for a dashing new wardrobe of matching goggles, cap and scarf. But in 1913 a mechanic named Henry Ford began turning out Model Ts on his newfangled assembly line. By the mid-'20s Ford was producing a car every ten seconds. Price: as low as $265. Mobility was suddenly within reach of the average family, and an egalitarian society was no longer some impossible ideal. Automobile ownership, reported Robert and Helen Lynd in Middletown, soon became "an accepted essential...