Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Customers are buying such boaty vehicles because gasoline is relatively cheap, and GM and Ford are determined to satisfy the demand. Even though the cars are more fuel efficient than comparably sized models of the 1960s and early '70s, their tendency to guzzle gas is causing headaches for the two largest U.S. automakers. Last week GM and Ford executives urged federal regulators to modify a fuel-economy law, passed in the energy-crisis year of 1975, that would require 1989 fleets to get an average of 27.5 m.p.g., up from 26 m.p.g. this year. GM is asking for a smaller...
...clear how many professors Dukakis would actually tap for his administration, but Allison, who announced his resignation from the Kennedy School over the summer, and Ford Foundation Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye have both been named as likely choices...
...though campaign advisers do not necessarily get administration posts, people who follow the election say that Dukakis would fill a few of his top foreign affairs posts from the K-School faculty--tapping in particular the military expertise of departing Dean Graham T. Allison '62 and Ford Foundation Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye. During the Democratic Convention Allison could be seen in a VIP box mingling with political heavyweights...
...that the Government is getting robbed. Democrat Fernand J. St. Germain of Rhode Island, chairman of the House Banking Committee, accused the Bank Board last week of simply giving American Savings to Bass without seriously entertaining a competing bid from First Nationwide Bank, a San Francisco-based subsidiary of Ford Motor. And Democratic Senator Donald Riegle of Michigan is worried that Bass might use money from the federally supported S and L to unfairly augment his corporate-raiding power. The Bank Board's chairman, M. Danny Wall, defends his bailout, calling it the best deal the Government could get. Furthermore...
...though campaign advisers do not necessarily get administration posts, people who follow the election say that Dukakis would fill a few of his top foreign affairs posts from the K-School faculty--tapping in particular the military expertise of departing Dean Graham T. Allison '62 and Ford Foundation Professor of International Security Joseph S. Nye. During the Democratic Convention Allison could be seen in a VIP box mingling with political heavy weights...