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...Ford Motor Co.'s U.S. automaker record of $1.7 billion in second-quarter profits announced this week didn't last long, as General Motors revealed that it more than doubled its 1993 second-quarter net with $1.9 billion in profits. With Chrysler's announcement earlier this month of $1 billion in profits, each of the Big Three manufacturers has now set company records -- a feat attributed to strong domestic sales of cars and light trucks and a rebounding foreign market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week July 24-30 | 8/8/1994 | See Source »

Jack Ryan is back, he's mad and he's fighting singly-handedly for truth, justice and the American Way. In essence, he's Superman in a suit and tie. In the new high-budget, espionage thriller of the summer, "Clear and Present Danger," Harrison Ford plays his former role of Jack Ryan with the honesty and uprightness we would expect...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: RYAN IS CLEARLY... ...BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN | 8/5/1994 | See Source »

Ryan, with his unaffected, yet steely presence and unwavering honesty, epitomizes the American Good Guy. Why do you think Harrison Ford has starred in some eight out of the top 10 grossing movies ever? He plays, in the words of a young woman I know, the type of man every woman would want to come home to: he's good-looking but not too pretty, he's honest and intelligent, he's not afraid to look danger in the face and figure out how to deal with it and he wouldn't cheat on you. These are the types...

Author: By G. WILLIAM Winborn, | Title: RYAN IS CLEARLY... ...BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN | 8/5/1994 | See Source »

...series' typical segments, Moore stands outside the offices of various corporate chiefs and uses a megaphone to ask them to come down and perform simple tasks their employees carry out every day. Louis Gerstner of IBM is challenged to format a computer disk; he doesn't respond. But Ford's Alex Trotman does agree to change the oil in a jeep. After he completes the chore, Moore, referring to a Ford slogan, asks him, "If quality is job one, what is job two?" Trotman responds earnestly, "We don't have ... we don't think of what's second really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Pranks and Populism | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

...suggested a match with the blood of victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman but failed to show any definitive link to Simpson's blood, according to a source close to the Simpson case. Police confirmed that they had found Simpson's passport and $10,000 in Al Cowlings' Ford Bronco after the famous freeway chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week July 10-16 | 7/25/1994 | See Source »

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