Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raged, Chrysler Corp. last week announced it would become the first U.S. automaker in decades to export to Western Europe. The reason: Chrysler feels that at the current exchange rates, some of its autos and vans will have wide appeal despite stiff European and Japanese competition. Unlike GM and Ford, Chrysler does not have European automaking subsidiaries, whose sales could be threatened by the export push. Says Robert Lutz, a Chrysler executive vice president: "At 240 yen to the dollar we were doomed. But at 150 yen we have a shot. I see real potential in the European market...
...review of Harvard's portfolio following the adoption of that policy ended in Thursday's announcement that the Corporation will divest over the next 12 months of $79 million in stock and $92 million in bonds in such firms as Exxon, Ford and Mobil...
Habermas was introduced by President Derek C. Bok and addressed such Harvard notables as Conant University Professor John Rawls, Government Department Chairman Robert D. Putnam, Ford Professor of Social Sciences Daniel Bell, and Professor of Law Duncan M. Kennedy. A group of protesters chanted "Divest" as Bok called the lecturer to the floor...
...even called my fifth-grade teacher "Marty." But I appreciated assignments that taught "critical thinking" along with "values." That was when our teacher didn't tell us what he thought about the Wednesday Afterschool Special until after we'd all discussed cheating at sports, a friend dying, exploding Ford Pintos or alternative energy sources...
...humor is a President's best friend and weapon. "The chance to be seen as a warm, relaxed human being with a twinkle-in-the-eye approach to himself is just too good an opportunity to miss," said Bob Orben, a leading gag writer and author of many of Ford's best lines. "Humor reaches out, puts a warm, affectionate arm around an audience and says, 'I am one of you. I understand you.' If you can laugh together, you can vote together...