Word: forde
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This fall Congress will hold hearings on a bill designed to toughen the regulatory system. Sponsored in the House by Michigan Democrat William Ford, the bill would require any company with more than 11 employees to set up a worker-management safety committee empowered to enforce jobsite safety rules. "Then there's no reason for an inspector to show up to unlock a door," says Franklin Mirer, safety director for the United Auto Workers. "The workers...
...movies, these dog days are a time of atonement. Out go the slam-bang gonadal giants of June and July; in come a passel of fellows on their onerous journey toward becoming more sensitive souls. They take their cue from Harrison Ford, the selfish lawyer in Regarding Henry, who gets a shot in the head and suddenly feels so darned . . . human. But the newer films go a step farther. In Doc Hollywood and The Doctor, the ones in need of redemption are good guys...
...Blue struggles to regain a share of the worldwide computer market that has slipped from 35% a decade ago to less than 25% today. "We've cut layers of management," says a company spokesman. "These are our ways of staying alive and being competitive." In Detroit, Ford, Chrysler and General Motors have eliminated 350,000 jobs since 1979, a reduction of 36%. The Big Three plan to lop off another 20,000 white-collar positions this year...
Retired auto executives say the darnedest things. In his forthcoming book, A Better Idea, former Ford chief DONALD PETERSEN writes that his company's quality improvements during the '80s failed to put the automaker ahead of the Japanese. "Right now, I rate Toyota the best, followed by Honda, and Mazda does a great...
Thompson, whose grandfather ran unsuccessfully for the state assembly in 1928 and whose father served on the Juneau county board, showed an early flair for politics. In 1966, just out of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, he borrowed $600, bought a 1959 Ford and campaigned successfully for a state-assembly seat. He was just 24. Following a failed 1979 congressional bid, he went on to win the governorship in 1986 and was easily re-elected last November...