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...helicopter sets down in Nantou County, next to a roadside restaurant where the waitresses and cooks have all come to stand by the road. The President and his entourage are hustled into waiting Ford Econoline vans and driven to Shi To National Park, where they attend a ceremony honoring efforts to rebuild after the September 1999 earthquake. Under a stained blue-red-and-white canopy, the President listens as Nantou's deputy mayor explains how they had to bore through rocks to reopen the highway...
FAMILY IS JOB ONE Corporate child care is hardly a new concept, but the Ford Motor Co. is promising to take this benefit to a new level. The company will offer an ambitious range of subsidized services that include 24-hr. on-site child care, summer camp and tutoring for middle schoolers, recreation and SAT prep for teens as well as financial planning for retirees and assistance to shut-in seniors. Beginning this fall and working closely with the UAW, Ford will roll out the red carpet for employees at 31 family service and learning centers over the next...
Though comparisons are being drawn, the Blake-Bakley case is not quite the O.J. Simpson saga. The glamour quotient is low, and no high-speed white Ford Bronco chase has hypnotized the nation. Last week the police were only calling Blake a witness, though they have not ruled him out as a suspect. They dusted him for gunpowder traces the night of the crime and found none. Still, there is some incredulity at the split-second timing of events in the tale he tells...
Conservation is cool beyond the cappuccino-sipping communities. Much of Big Business is ahead of the Administration. Automakers may lack the single-mindedness that regulation may bring, but they have been making ever more economical cars. Ford and GM are dueling it out over whose emissions are lower and whose suvs will get more mileage. Toyota and Honda are spending billions on hybrid engine cars, while companies like GE and Whirlpool are developing more efficient low-BTU mousetraps, like dishwashers that can be programmed to click on in the middle of the night. A few bones thrown...
...FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA 22 years after studio release, Apocalypse Now screens at Cannes in form he intended...