Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were well aware that this was a subject that mattered to every body-including them. Correspondent BJ. Phillips, newly arrived in Atlanta from New York City and in need of a car, took a look at costs and opted for a new engine and paint job for the 1951 Ford that once belonged to her grandfather. Chicago's Gary Ruderman signed closing papers on a 60-year-old gingerbread frame house last week. Avoiding the lofty loan rates of local banks, Ruderman financed the house with the aid of a 5% mortgage from the seller. Says Ruderman: "The basement...
February 28, 3:00 a.m.--The police were summoned by an Alabama resident whose car had been vandalized near Peabody Terrace. The hood of his 1977 Ford Thunderbird was covered with red spray Spaint, spelling "Uncle Sata." The police found no suspects...
...wage and benefit cuts by the U.A.W. One major cause of the breakdown was the fear that workers would not accept any deal that meant a reduction in benefits. General Motors, though, will now be pushing hard to get concessions from the unions. As a result of the Ford deal and another arrangement already in effect at Chrysler, GM will have higher costs of production than the other two major automakers...
...Rockefeller owned some of the world's costliest real estate, but for all his wealth and organization he could not sign a lease on the property he wanted most, the house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. He had to settle for an appointment as Vice President in the Ford Administration, where he glumly complained, "I go to funerals. I go to earthquakes." His own death in 1979 caused some seismic waves. At 70, he suffered a late-night heart attack while in the company of a young woman employee whom Joseph Persico describes as "a 20th century Rubens wearing aviator...
Daniel Bell. Ford Professor of Social Sciences, said he refused to sign the letter because he was not familiar enough about the issue...