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There was more heat than light yesterday as a House committee began hearings into the tangled relationship between the Ford Motor Co. and Bridgestone/Firestone. Firestone CEO John Lampe and Ford head Jaques Nasser presented widely differing explanations for safety problems with the Ford Explorer equipped with Firestone's Wilderness AT tires, and the committee chair, Louisiana Rep. Billy Tauzin, muddied things further by suggesting that seven of the tire models Ford is using as replacements might have higher failure rates than the Firestone tires. TIME's John Greenwald has been covering the Ford/Firestone inquiry and he spoke with TIME.com about...
Perhaps not, but the forced-ranking systems have ignited legal firestorms. Recent lawsuits brought by past and present employees have charged Microsoft, Ford and Conoco with using the systems to favor some groups of workers over others--such as white males over blacks or women and younger managers over older ones...
...patrons. "The runner lives in the real world, just like you and I," says ABC sales president Mike Shaw. "If the runner eats lunch at McDonald's in Cincinnati or shops at Sears, that's all very natural." A midseason WB wilderness-race show is being co-produced by Ford, which supplies the suvs the players will drive; the title, No Boundaries, is a Ford ad slogan. Fox may even do placements in Temptation Island 2. (Trojan, call your agency...
Such placements--sold by the networks as packages with traditional commercials--offer a new cash stream amid bottom-line pressures. No Boundaries executive producer Kevin Beggs says that before he and his partners secured funding from Ford, "there was interest, but there was interest in a lot of shows." But after the sponsorship, "we got an order from the WB for 13 episodes." (Says network spokesman Paul McGuire: "The WB would not have gone forward with the show unless we liked and embraced the concept of the program.") There are longer-term pressures at work too. Digital video recorders like...
BOOK Henry and Clara by Thomas Mallon "A historical fiction about the couple who were in the box at Ford's Theatre with Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd. It's a sad story...