Word: forde
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...There is something about the American car companies that has frozen them in time. Perhaps it is the millions of cars that were bought over the last twenty years, most of which are still on the road. It may be that the public still remembers Lee Iacocca and Henry Ford II as though they were still running the companies. Whatever the reason, the idea that one or two of the car companies could go into bankruptcy caused a substantial amount of anxiety around the country. Perhaps if the economy were bustling, people would not care so much...
...picture-perfect New York City moment, and it's only after the director yells "Cut!" that you'd notice that the façade over Gallagher's right shoulder is in fact the 100-year-old Ford Building in downtown Detroit. This scene, along with every other from the legal drama Betty Anne Waters, starring Hilary Swank, is being filmed in Michigan, the new Hollywood of the Midwest...
History teaches us, however, that it won't be easy. The last time the U.S. recommended nationwide vaccination against a suspected swine flu was in 1976, with less than successful results, to say the least. Under orders from President Gerald Ford, a vaccine was rushed into production and administered to 45 million Americans, at a cost of $135 million. But within weeks, people started developing Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralyzing immune-system disorder that can result from the vaccine. Some experts estimated the risk of Guillain-Barré as being seven times higher in those who were immunized...
Everybody remembers his first car, and most of us remember a second coming-of-age milestone: our first new car. After years of driving around in Mom's old Chevrolet Caprice or Granddad's (may he rest in peace) Ford Torino (it too), finally came the day when you wiped your hands of automotive grease and traded in the wrenches for your first new set of wheels and breathed in its intoxicating new-car smell. Having grown up in the backseat of my father's 1957 Pontiac, I had little doubt that my first new car, too, would proudly sport...
...Grappling with a previous administration's wrongdoings is not a new problem. President Gerald Ford will forever be remembered for the line in his inaugural speech - "Our long national nightmare is over" - and his pardon of his predecessor, Richard Nixon. "Ford had some of the same problems," says Larry Sabato, a political science professor at the University of Virginia. "Many people were so focused on getting Nixon or re-fighting Vietnam that the pressing agenda of the '70s was lost in the mists of the past...