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...Ford, the auto giant where "Quality is Job #1," August has been a very cruel month...
...While dealing with the ongoing Firestone p.r. disaster (and watching its stock slip 10 percent), Ford had to close two plants making high-profit Ranger trucks just to free up replacement tires. The tire flap is growing: A tire expert and former Firestone/Bridgestone employee is calling for a widening of the recall to all sizes of the ATX series, and next month John McCain wants to drag everybody concerned in front of the Senate Commerce Committee for public hearings...
...documents, first reported in the Los Angeles Times, are on the loose that make Ford - which practically resurrected the American-built car with its safe and reliable Taurus, and has positioned itself as the greenest of the American auto behemoths - sound like just the kind of big, heartless, profit-driven company Al Gore says he's gunning...
Firestone decided on the recall last week after poring over accident reports with Ford and huddling with NHTSA officials. Gary Crigger, Firestone's executive vice president, phoned his bosses in Tokyo to advise them of the decision. That seemed to catch the Japanese company flat-footed, although it publicly took credit for the order. Just two weeks ago, Bridgestone chief executive Yoichiro Kaizaki forecast rising profits for the rest of 2000. But last week Bridgestone said the recall at Firestone--which accounted for some 40% of Bridgestone's $20.4 billion in 1999 revenues--could cost the Japanese company as much...
Writing a screenplay will do strange things to a man. FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA was in the middle of one when it struck him it was time to do musical theater. Inspired by Gidget, the novel about a 14-year-old girl who wants to surf, Coppola co-wrote the book for a musical and 12 original songs. Then he approached the Orange County High School for the Performing Arts in Cerritos, Calif., with a plan to workshop his play using teen performers. "I was a drama counselor in summer camp when I was young," says Coppola. "I like to work...