Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...budding star had set his heart on football: the youngster won Massachusetts' punt, pass and kick competition, sponsored by Ford Motors...
...week. For trips abroad she plots her outfitting like a general drawing up plans for battle, studying the slick fashion magazines, then huddling with favorite designers. She also practices a kind of guerrilla shopping. Dressed in jeans, she will slip out of the palace by 10, driving her red Ford Sierra with the obligatory detective next to her, and head for a favorite boutique for a quick...
...general are shockingly underrepresented at all levels, from the top of the faculty down to the lowliest freshman. The most dramatic drop-offs occur at the upper levels. Minorities constitute more than 20% of the nation's college-age population, but according to Sheila Biddle, program officer of the Ford Foundation, they accounted for only 8% of the 31,190 Ph.D.s awarded in 1983. Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans and American Indians together accounted for a bare 4.4%. At the M.A. level, blacks, who make up 13% of the college-age population, were awarded 6.5% of the degrees...
Harris, however, is miraculously able to redeem his character on the strength of only one scene, arguably the best movie history since Harrison Ford taught Kelly McGillis how to bop in Witness. Feeling contrite about his continual neglect of his wife and baby, boot-camp confined Dick jumps on a hot motorcycle and cruises the hundred or so miles back home just so he can drag his somnambulent wife out into the pouring rain for a slow dance in front of the nightclub where they met. As he cuddles against Cline's rain-soaked nightgown, it's impossible...
...year sold $722 million worth of cars, including 3% of Cadillac's production line. Potamkin will not sell competing makes in the same store, but his 29-dealership empire, spanning the East Coast, has a total of ten different brands. In Denver, Leo Payne sells cars built by GM, Ford, Chrysler, AMC, Volkswagen, Volvo, Daimler-Benz, Subaru and Nissan. San Francisco's Martin Swig explains the megadealer's credo: "I don't care where a car comes from as long as it meets the needs of the market...