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Participants in the three conferences come from a wide variety of backgrounds, Kalb said. "We invited leading journalists, government officials, and scholars," Kalb said, "Presidents Carter and Ford have been invited to attend the next conference...
Sources close to the talks said the GM pact closely parallels the one that the U.A.W. and Ford reached in September. That contract gave Ford workers a 3% wage hike in the first year, along with 3% lump-sum payments in both the second and third years. Far more important to the U.A.W. was the issue of job security. The Ford deal imposed a moratorium on plant closings and barred layoffs for any reason other than a severe sales slump. From GM, the U.A.W. apparently received similar assurances about future employment levels, but in an important concession, the union will...
...Margaret Ford (Lindsay Crouse) is unaware that she lives in a chancy universe. A trimly repressed psychiatrist, she must believe that whatever problems come her way are amenable to rational solutions. So when one of her patients tells her that the gamblers to whom he owes an impossible sum of money are threatening his life, she marches straight to the House of Games, determined to talk compassionate sense to the management...
...been in Detroit, where automakers were shamed in the 1970s by their products' poor performance. Today in the Hewlett Packard parking lot in California's Silicon Valley, where not long ago a U.S.-made car was a rare find, the sun shimmers off the sleek bodies of hundreds of Ford Taurus sedans. The electronics company was so impressed with the style and solidness of the autos that it bought a fleet of 8,000 for staffers to drive...
...Ford spent his final years living in England and Florida. He joined Sotheby's, the art auction house, as vice chairman, and he sat on the board of directors of a local bank. He continued to work for his old company and at the time of his death was head of the finance committee of the board of directors. To the end, he remained as secure as ever. After all, his name was on the building...