Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carter's entreaties. But it did not take long for the Congressman to detect the flaw in that presidency. "Carter conferred with God, Rosalynn and Amy and then made judgments about what was right and wrong, but he did not lead," says Conable. He was distressed when Jerry Ford did not get a second term because he felt Ford put results above personal glory. Nixon had to be moved off the national stage. Ford did it by pardoning him. Ford was then defeated...
...with a ready grin, spent eight years in the House before winning a Senate seat in 1968. He has a reputation as an adroit legislative craftsman and a fierce competitor. His biting wit is legendary, but the vituperative remarks that earned him the "hatchet man" label as Gerald Ford's 1976 running mate are rare now. More typical is the comment he made last week when his wife presented him with a congratulatory schnauzer named Leader. Deadpanned Dole: "It's an indication of where my leadership is going. Housebroken but not Senate-broken...
...built cars were up 29% in the middle ten days of November from the same period a year ago. General Motors scored a 17% gain, Ford's sales rose nearly 50% and Chrysler's jumped 62%. The auto companies plan to lift their production by 15.5% in the first quarter of 1985, compared with the last three months of this year...
...number of Japanese automakers manufacturing in the U.S. Honda has a plant in Marysville, Ohio; Nissan has one in Smyrna, Tenn., and Toyota will begin producing cars this month in a venture with General Motors in Fremont, Calif. Mazda plans to construct a $450 million assembly plant near a Ford foundry in Flat Rock, literally in Detroit's backyard...
Mazda's U.S. venture will bring it closer to Ford, which already owns 25% of the company. The Mazda GLC sedan is marketed by Ford in Australia and New Zealand as the Laser. The proposed Michigan plant will probably put 3,500 people to work in an area of high unemployment. By the end of 1988, the factory could be turning out vehicles at the rate of 240,000 annually. Ford is expected to buy some of the cars and may put the Mustang name plate on them. Fast-growing Mazda has been crimped by import restraints that limit...