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Nearly a year ago, the Clinton Administration imposed a 100% tariff on the products these three businesses and hundreds of others like them import and sell. That's sort of like charging you $40,000 for a $20,000 Ford Taurus...
...Ford has long tried to project the image that it is the most ecologically conscious automaker - by making cars whose emission levels are even lower than what regulations require - as well as the most wired, by using web sites to supply parts and keep track of maintenance records. The home-computer scheme burnishes the corporation's forward-looking image by investing in the quality of life of its employees - the sort of p.r. spin that helped build GM's Saturn as a viable brand name in the '90s. Improving the high-tech skills of the workforce also reflects the needs...
...Henry Ford wanted everyone to have a cheap car; his corporate descendants want a computer in every home. The Ford Motor Company announced Thursday that every one of its 350,000 employees would be eligible to receive a free Hewlett Packard computer, a color printer and $5-a-month Internet access via UUNet in a worldwide program beginning in April. The program will be reviewed after three years. "Ford has had very good labor relations over the past decade, and this remarkable initiative is certainly going to help maintain the loyalty of their workforce," says TIME business correspondent Frank Gibney...
...likely to become an auto-industry trend? "Unlikely," says Gibney. "Although they may want to do something similar, most of Ford's competitors may not be able to afford it." The most immediate beneficiary of the scheme, of course, is Hewlett Packard, which is now expecting an order equivalent to 4 percent of its 1999 worldwide sales. Corporations with money to burn - Ford has $23.6 billion in cash reserves - ought to expect calls from Compaq, Dell, Gateway and Apple...
...such political hype now, after 21 years as a certified political junkie. Growing up in Washington, D.C., Porter lived a political life, especially because his father, Roger B. Porter, IBM professor of business and government at the JFK School of Government, served as a top economic advisor to the Ford, Reagan and Bush administrations...