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...fresh faces" in which women and minorities would be strongly represented, his selections so far have come from a narrow field. Of the 15 Cabinet officers and senior officials he had chosen through last week, twelve were either holdovers from the Reagan Administration or people who served under Gerald Ford...
...Attorney Carla Hills, 54, a former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Ford and a tough negotiator, was named U.S. Trade Representative...
...devotes more than 15% of the $170 million it spends yearly on job training to remedial education. In an attempt to match the quality of many foreign manufacturers, Detroit's Big Three carmakers joined the United Auto Workers in 1982 to create a comprehensive education and training program. At Ford Motor Co. alone, more than 8,500 of 106,000 blue-collar workers have since enrolled in basic-skills classes at the company's 50 learning centers in plants nationwide. Says Ford chairman Donald E. Petersen: "The prosperity of our business will depend on our ability to operate more...
...responded to Professors Thompson and Sen, stating that no principle can be applied in an absolutist way, and that criteria in some fields might be applied differently, but that is a case matter and needs to be considered with an awareness of the principle being held. Daniel Bell Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences
...report that Huggins wrote for the Ford Foundation in 1985 on the state of Afro-American Studies, the Harvard historian says that "I have written here mainly of historians, in part because they were asked to play a major role in [the founding of] Afro-American studies." Huggins, whose report examines the future of the discipline as well as its past, went on to say that "to the extent there was a field, it depended on [the historians...