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...market has been buffeted by high domestic interest costs as well, with short-term rates hitting 15%. The Bank of England has been boosting rates to combat an 8% inflation spiral, which has been aggravated by double-digit increases in recent labor contracts. Case in point: last week Ford's British subsidiary agreed to a 10% wage increase for its unionized workers...
...first it seems as if Jong has deliberately created a boorish, self- deluded heroine, like the flawed narrator in Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, whose unreliable confessions the reader learns to unravel and reinterpret. Nope. No such luck. Jong takes Leila Sand seriously. Worse yet, she expects the reader to do the same...
...Franklin Ford, McLean professor of ancient and modern history and Baker's neighbor for 20 years, found Baker "admirable in every respect as a scholar, a teacher and as a statesman for his own department...
...Ford said that Baker's scholarship "puts him very high among the shapers of the subject. I was struck by his erudition and his extreme caution, which I think his students appreciated...
...Ford also called Baker "a very valuable citizen and an effective chairman of his department," and praised his ability to hear other people's points of view and to ride out controversies...