Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Judy Granberg was to inherit no financial worries. Her husband, it turned out, had insured himself over the years with six insurance companies for $750,000. Judy quickly shifted into a faster lane. Instead of the family's old Ford Granada, she began driving a gray $50,000 Mercedes. She enrolled her children in the New York Military Academy, a coed private school. The family traveled around the country in high style, staying at hotels and eating in chic restaurants. She changed their name to Brent, sold her home and rented a garden townhouse in Cornwall...
...Ford Foundation boosts academics at community colleges
...back to their basics. One driving force is the growing concern that students should have a solid grounding in the liberal arts and sciences. Another factor is declining budgets; many state legislatures, which provide 60% of the financing for community colleges, want to cut the frills. This week the Ford Foundation is helping the reform movement by honoring 24 community colleges in 19 cities for their efforts to prepare students for further study. Each institution will get $25,000, but the main award will be the prestige of being singled out for praise. Next year the foundation plans to give...
...Rockefeller Foundation formed a commission to study U.S, policy towards the country. Comprised of industrialists, academies and a labor unionist, the commission was chaired by Ford Foundation president Franklin Thomas its principle advisors included G.A. Coastanzo vice chairman of the board of Citibank: William Sneath, chairman of the board of Union Carbide Corporation: former secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vancez and Donald McHenry, former United States Ambassador in the United Nations...
...Rockefeller Foundation formed a commission to study U.S. policy towards the country. Comprised of industrialists, academics and a labor unionist, the commission was chaired by Ford Foundation president Franklin Thomas. Its principal advisors included G.A. Costanzo, vice chairman of the board of Citibank: William Sneath, chairman of the board of Union Carbide Corporation: former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance; and Donald McHenry, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations...