Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With their profits squeezed, both Ford and General Motors are eager to strengthen their positions in the moneymaking high end of the luxury-car business. The automakers have fixed their gaze on Britain's Jaguar as the car of choice in the upscale market. Last week Ford declared that it may bid to buy Jaguar when the British government's restrictions on individual stakes in the firm expire at the end of next year. Ford currently controls 13% of Jaguar's stock...
...Ford's salvo came as GM was negotiating a joint venture and minority stake in the successful but cash-strapped British carmaker. Now analysts expect that GM may be forced to try to buy the firm outright to prevent Ford from making a hostile raid. Should the battle between the two U.S. giants become heated, analysts predict, Jaguar shares currently valued at $2 billion might fetch as much as $2.9 billion...
...know you're every bit as patriotic as I am. And like you, I believe in free trade: you should buy whatever damn car you please. (And, yes, I know your Japanese car may have been built here, and that your Miata, built over there, is part American because Ford owns 25% of Mazda...
...very long." He was right. During the following few years, a drumbeat of press stories and congressional investigations disclosed past attempts by the CIA to kill Congolese ex-Premier Patrice Lumumba, Cuba's Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. Though apparently none of these plots succeeded, President Gerald Ford included the assassination ban in a 1976 public Executive Order regulating U.S. intelligence activities. Every President since has adopted the ban with little change...
Stevens has been the butler at Darlington Hall in Oxfordshire since 1922. It is now 1956, and his new employer, an American named Mr. Farraday, encourages the butler to take a brief vacation in the owner's vintage Ford. Stevens hesitantly agrees. Running Darlington Hall with a staff of four, which Mr. Farraday has requested, as opposed to the 17 assistants Stevens once supervised, has been hard on his nerves. A drive to the West Country might do him good. Besides, Stevens has received a letter from Miss Kenton, the housekeeper who resigned in 1936 to be married, revealing that...