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Reich is no stranger to government. Beforecoming to Harvard, he served as director of policyplanning for the FTC under former president JimmyCarter and assistant to the solicitor generalunder president Gerald Ford...
...acquisition further accelerates a realignment already well along in the industry. Ford Motor Co. sold its missile and satellite operations to Loral Corp., and Hughes Aircraft acquired General Dynamics' missile operations. Faced with continued shrinking of the market, all the major defense firms are reviewing the betting. Predicts Gordon Adams, director of the Washington-based Defense Budget Project: "The bloodletting will continue...
...Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera, Francesca Zambello cites as inspiration the gloomy tales of Edgar Allan Poe and the brooding landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich, both contemporaries of the composer. Maybe. But those with an eye for contemporary culture -- and the weekly grosses of Francis Ford Coppola's latest film in Variety -- can see that the real influence is one Mr. Zeitgeist. The Bride of Dracula, anybody...
...Ford Pinto all over again, only worse," claims Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the CAS, referring to the 1970s-era compact car whose allegedly flawed gas-tank design led to the death of 27 motorists...
...pickups, sold under the Chevrolet and GMC nameplates, are commonly used as recreation vehicles and as workhorses in fields like construction and farming. As in Ford and Chrysler pickups, the gas tank in GM trucks was mounted inside the cab, behind the seats, until federal regulations in 1973 forced the companies to relocate the tank. Ford and Chrysler placed it underneath the vehicle's chassis, inside a set of heavy-steel frame rails. In GM models made between 1973 and 1987, however, the gas tank was mounted like a saddlebag, outside the frame. This configuration made the tank more vulnerable...