Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard men's swimming Co-Captain Tim Ford didn't have to be taught to be a champion...
This is a novel written in blood and Inc. The author has been a speechwriter for Lee Iacocca, Gerald Ford and the chairman of the board of American Motors, and he has manifestly spent many hours with Kafka's In the Penal Colony and Orwell's dystopian visions. Walker's central figure, a nameless public relations man for a major corporation, is getting stale. The company packs him off for behavioral conditioning. Walker is not much on acronyms: the victim is made to undergo PAR--Positive Attitudinal Reinforcement--and SAD--Supervisory Aptitude Development. But the forced seminars ring with comic...
...gift from the Ford Foundation covered the printing costs for the first issue and was the periodical's largest grant, she said. The Journal, which has an operating budget of $5000, published 1000 copies of its first issue...
...Excel is certain to intensify competition among makers of small cars. The rivals include Ford's Escort (base price: $6,052), Chrysler's Omni and Horizon ($6,209), the Toyota Tercel ($5,598), the Nissan Sentra ($5,649) and the Honda Civic ($5,649). Admits one Detroit executive: "The Excel will be a formidable competitor for everybody in the low end of the market...
...Bertram Podell of Brooklyn, who confessed on the witness stand to conspiracy charges, and his relentless hammering away at undercover cops on the take established the leitmotivs of his career: the passionate prosecution of public corruption and organized crime. While serving a stint in the Justice Department during the Ford Administration, he completed his gradual metamorphosis from a Robert Kennedy Democrat to a registered Republican...