Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sting: a Ford van with a FIST Bonded Deli very Courier Service sign on its side arrives at the target's address. A maroon-shirted driver comes to his door and asks him to step outside to sign a receipt for the package. The moment the fugitive signs, confirming his identity, two teams of officers spring out of cars and collar their quarry. The scheme so surprised many of the arrestees that they could not immediately put two and two together. "Hey, that guy had a package for me!" screamed one of them as officers affixed the handcuffs while...
...says that many manufacturers are "housekeepers but not yet architects." More strategic thinking, more top talent and more development, he says, are needed. Detroit auto executives take exception to that. They insist they are no longer second to Japanese manufacturing in any way. "There is no manufacturing gap," says Ford President Donald Petersen. Echoes GM President F James McDonald: "There are no differences in the process. Most of the technology everyone uses was developed here...
Donations from the Ford and Rockefeller foundations have gone a long way toward paying for the Divinity School's women's studies program, which began in 1973 and evolved into a major program in 1980 when new funds brought five full time scholars to the school...
...perfectly comfortable Senate seat because he imagined the work might be more restful than politics. "As Governor of Kentucky," says Chandler, 85, "I signed 36 death warrants. Two of them were hanged for rape in the courthouse yard." But as he was soon to learn-and as Ford Frick, Spike Eckert and Bowie Kuhn all discovered in turn-the commissioner's job is not unlike presiding at such an occasion while being the object of the exercise at the same time...
...they named Ford Frick...