Word: forde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials say that research, rather than teaching, will be the greatest area of impact at the Taubman Center. Several existing research programs will be incorporated into the new center, including the Ford Foundation Innovations program, which gives grants for outstanding state and local programs, and the Joint Center for Housing Studies...
Truman-Dewey, Carter-Ford, Dukakis-Bush. The question is always the same: How does a great country of 250 million get stuck with these guys...
...Ford will need a fleet of attractive cars to hold its own against the flood of rival models coming into the market. U.S. plants owned by Japanese companies, including Nissan, Honda and Toyota, are expected to produce 2.2 million cars annually by 1992, up from 618,000 in 1987. That will surely cut into the sales of the U.S. Big Three, which produced 15 million vehicles last year. Detroit fears the new competition because the Japanese plants, which generally employ nonunion labor, have been able to keep operating costs 15% to 20% below those of the Big Three. "We have...
...always, Ford's chief nemesis will be GM. With 1987 sales of $102 billion, GM remains 41% larger than Ford. Auto experts say GM could rebound sharply with its planned line of stylish front-wheel-drive cars called the GM- 10 series. "General Motors is waking up," says Auto Analyst Maryann Keller of Furman Selz Mager Dietz & Birney. "Ford is going to face tough competition in the 1990s...
Others think Ford has the ability but needs the desire to overtake GM as the world's largest automaker. Says Vladimir Pucik, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan's business school: "Nobody goes to the Indy 500 trying to be a strong...