Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Children's Hearings Project operates out of the Cambridge, Somerville, and Malden Juvenile Courts. It has been funded since its first cases in June 1981 by the Ford Foundation and other private grants Probation officers refer CHINS cases to Project case coordinators, who suggest to the parties involved the mediation alternative. Project director Sandra A. Wixted says that "very disorganized families, or families with severe mental problems, tend to screen themselves out": either they do not accept mediation or they fail to appear for scheduled mediation sessions...
...boom years, those cars would have been new. Now only an occasional '82 Buick Regal or Chrysler Le Baron gleams hopefully among older Coupe de Villes, Torinos and Caprice Classics. A Thunderbird stands in ruinous decay next to the embarrassing glint of a new Toyota. An ancient Ford station wagon, held together by spit and masking tape, boasts a bumper sticker that says: THUMBS UP FOR MICHIGAN...
...side, Wendy Smith plays a mandolin with a country band called Blue Velvet. His friend Donald Clay, a Ford worker in Ypsilanti, Mich., also has a band, North Country Grass. "We was raised up together," says Wendy. "There was only one well on Ranger Ridge, and his daddy had it, and we carried water from...
...trying all the plants we could walk to. My cousin was 18, but too thin, and I was too young. So we traded wallets, and I hired on in his name. They never noticed. He worked there a long time. Later on, I hired in at Ford. I was really tickled when I got my job. The super offered to buy me lunch. I said no, I have money, I'll buy my own lunch. That was 28 years ago. I've got two years and six months until retirement. Ford's been real good...
SOME MEN NEED HELP by John Ford Noonan...