Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first complexity of forgiveness involves the question of justice. Personal or even divine magnanimity is not public justice, and it should not be permitted to override justice. The Pope forgave Agca, but Agca remains in jail, and should. President Gerald Ford did not seem to have the distinction clear in his mind when, using somewhat sacramental language, he pardoned Richard Nixon in 1974. Said Ford: "I do believe, with all my heart and mind and spirit, that I, not as President, but as a humble servant of God, will receive justice without mercy if I fail to show mercy...
Abernathy spent much of his time studying and advising the Ford Motor Company, and got widespread recognition in his field with a 1980 review article entitled, "Managing Our Way to Economic Decline." He co-authored a book with Clark and Kantrow, published last spring, entitled "Industrial Renaissance...
Detroit automakers did not have bonuses under their Christmas trees, but big ones are on the way. Beginning this spring, the Big Three automakers will give executives their first bonus checks since 1979. General Motors, Ford and Chrysler expect record total profits of about $6.5 billion in 1983, a more than 13-fold increase from $475 million in 1982. At present, many auto executives are taking home less than they earned five years ago. GM Chairman Roger Smith, for example, made $548,634 last year, compared with a salary of $240,000 and a bonus...
...prospect of GM's gaining access to Toyota's small-car know-how sent fear into the boardrooms of Ford, Chrysler and American Motors. GM already accounts for 60% of all U.S. sales of American-made cars, while Toyota has 25% of the market for imports. "I don't care what kind of fig-leaf consent order they try to cover it up with," said Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca after last week's FTC decision. "It's not right, and I will do everything in my power to see that the American public gets...
HOSPITALIZED. Johnny Cash, 51, stone-faced country and western singer; to avoid chemical dependency; in the Betty Ford Center of Eisenhower Medical Center; in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Fearful that he might become hooked on drugs after taking prescribed painkillers for sciatic nerve spasms and surgery on a bleeding ulcer, the gravel-voiced Cash checked himself into a rehabilitation program...