Word: forde
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...surmises, would have been equally successful in the age of radio, like Franklin D. Roosevelt, or in the age of newsreels, like Warren G. Harding, or in the age of steel engravings and the penny press, like Franklin Pierce. Presidential candidates in the television era -- Johnson, Nixon, Humphrey, McGovern, Ford, Carter, Mondale -- hardly constitute a parade of bathing beauties calculated to excite Atlantic City...
Unfortunately, The Mosquito Coast (based on Paul Theroux's 1982 novel) is not a postcard. It is a movie, recording in painful detail the self-righteous Allie's trek toward a predictable tragedy, herding his long-suffering family before him as he goes. And though Harrison Ford offers a hypnotizing portrayal of a man covering despair with lunatic optimism, hysteria with bravado and rigid self-control, a fatal prejudice lingers in the audience: we do not want to spend a couple of hours with Allie here any more than we would if he were, heaven forfend, our next-door neighbor...
...Black organizations are willing to make sacrifices to achieve their goal. While this is true it appears to hold water only in the theoretical statement, as evidenced by the recent strike by GM workers after the company's withdrawal. As Mr. Wilson Jonas, a former union shop steward at Ford, said "For me as a leader to say I'm for disinvestment, knowing that I'm sending thousands of people into darkness is something I can't do. The rank and file don't understand about the sacrifices you have to make to get long-term benefits. They just...
...from a production boom largely of foreign inspiration. Daewoo, the nation's second largest automaker after Hyundai, is preparing to ship next year as many as 100,000 units annually of a new GM subcompact known as LeMans, to be sold through Pontiac. Daewoo is 50% owned by GM. Ford owns 10% of Kia, South Korea's third largest auto manufacturer...
Amid the frenetic activity, says Ford Chairman Donald Petersen, "the real battle will be won by whoever is best able to utilize capacity." Above all, that is a call for more automaking efficiency, meaning greater use of low-cost suppliers, more highly automated and productive plants -- and, in all likelihood, fewer workers, who will receive lower wages in return for better guarantees of job security. The reality is that the future for the major U.S. auto companies is already here. The heartening fact is that not one of them is trying to avoid...