Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich...
...earth has somehow escaped destruction, but all the dol phins have mysteriously disappeared. The book's title, in fact, is their farewell message. He sets out to find them, making new friends, notably a lady whose feet do not quite touch the ground, and re-encountering old ones, like Ford Prefect, hard-drinking correspondent for the Hitchhiker's Guide, a 6 million- page Baedeker of the cosmos. Prefect is still updating his entries; for instance, rediscovering a New York City river "so extravagantly polluted that new life forms were emerging from it spontaneously, demanding welfare and voting rights...
...time and meaning. Still, Fish is the best evidence yet that Adams is not simply a funny sci-fi writer but a bomb-heaving satirist. Consider the spaceship that lands in central London, demolishing Harrods and disgorging a robot that demands, "Take me to your Lizard." On its world, Ford Prefect explains, "the people are people. The lizards are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." The system, he says, is called democracy. But why do the people vote for the lizards? "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, the wrong lizard might...
...down to 1.6% in the third quarter, which briefly raised fears that a recession was on the way. This year should be less packed with drama and trauma. Said Board Member Alan Greenspan, a New York consultant who served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Ford: "The forecast is for moderate growth, moderate inflation and moderate unemployment...
...week's end Haydon was breathing on his own, slurping Popsicles and doing passive exercises. He also stood briefly by his bed, and was scheduled to sit in a chair. The quiet-mannered former Ford assembly-line worker from the Louisville suburb of St. Matthews also displayed a wry sense of humor. "Would you please turn on the television?" he asked two days after surgery. "I would like to see if I'm alive and how I'm doing...