Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Larry Bird began the first-quarter streak that put the Celts in control with a 12-ft. jumper, followed by a spinning Maxwell layup. Malone hit a freethrow, and Chris Ford fastbreaked a layup. And after that--Parish...
Dennis Tibbitt, 39, a former Ford employee, and his wife Janet, 33, also fared well. Repeatedly out of work in Detroit, Dennis concluded that "there were only three things you could do: get out, starve or turn criminal." He got out, and found a bus-driving job in Houston in a matter of weeks. Says Janet, who found an illustrator's job in three days: "Up there, things are happening that you cannot control. Here I feel secure...
Although GM last week reported a $190 million profit for the first three months of the year, Ford announced a $439 million loss, and Chrysler was $298 million in the red during the same period. At tiny American Motors, unit sales slipped 31%, and the company lost $53 million. The rebates that all the automakers offered earlier this year helped sales, but cut sharply into profit margins...
...Neither Ford nor Chrysler will be coming out this spring with a totally new line to match the GM J-cars, but both companies are introducing sporty versions of existing front-wheel-drive subcompacts. Ford has launched its first two-seater models since the 1957 Thunderbird: the Ford EXP and the Mercury LN7. The cars are smartly designed versions of the successful Ford Escort and Mercury Lynx, which were introduced last fall. Though they have a Government fuel-economy rating of 29 m.p.g. in city driving, the anemic performance of their 1.6-liter engine is hardly up to sports...
...even of worthlessness, if they are thrown out on the street. But the blow seldom carries the life-and-death implications it once had, the sense of personal ruin. Besides, the wild and notorious behavior of the economy takes a certain amount of personal shame out of joblessness; if Ford closes down a plant in New Jersey and throws 3,700 workers into the unemployment lines, the guilt falls less on individuals than on Japanese imports or American car design or an extortionate OPEC...