Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report that Robert London was a Ford car salesman who drove a leased Mazda RX7. How inconsistent can a person be? I feel sorry for him, but can't he accept a little responsibility for the depressed U.S. auto situation...
Kissinger received phone calls from President Reagan and former Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter...
...final sweetener, Ford offered workers a "guaranteed income stream." In essence, the plan is something like the Japanese system of lifetime employment. The company said it would give employees with 15 years on the job at least 50% of their current wages until retirement, regardless of whether they were working or not. An employee laid off after 25 years, for example, would collect about $240 a week...
...Ford Vice President Peter J. Pestillo and U.A.W. President Douglas Fraser bargained for nearly two weeks at Ford's Dearborn headquarters. Said Fraser just before the final round of talks last Saturday: "As I look back, I'm glad we failed when we tried to reach a similar deal with GM. We're going to do better here...
...Office Politics (about a certain liberal magazine or magazines) and Max Jamison (about a certain theater critic or critics). In the new book he mixes the storyteller's phrase with the historian's acuity: "The '20s did not entirely take place in the '20s"; President Ford is "like a relative you have to visit now and then, with nothing much to report. You know, he's still working at Prudential or Tool & Dye"; William F. Buckley's "more right-wing pieces tend to remind me of someone talking extra-loud to a rich relative...