Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paul A. Volcker, 55, whose four-year term expires in August. And while no final decision was made last week, Volcker became the odds-on favorite to succeed himself. The only other serious contender is Alan Greenspan, 57, a frequent adviser to the Reagan White House and once Gerald Ford's chief economist. Others who were candidates, or fancied themselves candidates, are no longer being considered. Among them: Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Preston Martin and Treasury Under Secretary Beryl Sprinkel...
...austerity program show up everywhere. Mexico City's shops are bursting with goods, but there are few customers; bored clerks chat idle hours away. Auto showrooms are deserted, and understandably so: a Volkswagen Rabbit sells for 800,000 pesos, more than double the 360,000 of last summer. Ford, GM and Chrysler have stopped including fancy U.S.-made electronics in their Mexican-built cars to get around import restrictions...
...others emigrated. Even today, many American Black artists look to Europe for inspiration and Hudlin says. Black films in particular owe much to Ingmar Bergman and other European filmmakers Hudlin makes Black films that are in tune with the American tradition. His favorite directors are Howard, Hawks and John Ford. In his own work, he plans to explore what he calls "Afro Americana "that is, the part of American culture which is Black...
...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...
...Ford...