Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ford Professor of Business Administration Emeritus Lawrence E. Fouraker, who served as dean of the Business School until 1980, said in an interview last night that while Jackson was at the school while he was dean, he was not following the case at all. "She never discussed any complaints with me," he said of Jackson. Jackson first came up for tenure...
...moderate Republican, Thornburgh, 56, was respected as chief of the department's criminal division under Gerald Ford. He won election to two terms as Pennsylvania Governor, earning a reputation for steadiness in his handling of the 1979 nuclear-power-plant crisis at Three Mile Island. Asked what he would do if required to review the ethics of his predecessor, Thornburgh replied that he would "follow the evidence wherever it may lead...
Lipsig gets very serious about the civic virtues of liability suits. "But for lawsuits brought by personal-injury lawyers, the Ford Motor Co. would still be making defective Pintos, which burst into flames when struck from behind." He describes the firm he founded 62 years ago, which has now become Lipsig, Sullivan & Liapakis, in terms that would make the Lone Ranger blush: "Champion of the weak, defender of the poor, the equalizer in the arena of litigation...
...necessarily a male code with Carver; the women (in "Careful," for example) are often more stoic than their men. In narrative style, Carver believes in saying less. He has been called the founder of the new Minimalism, or, according to Granta, Dirty Realism, whose followers include Richard Ford, Mary Robison, Jayne Anne Phillips, Tobias Wolff and Bobbie Ann Mason...
...scenario was all too familiar. As U.S. Navy Captain William E. Nordeen, 51, a military attache at the American embassy in Athens, was setting out for work in his bulletproof Ford Granada last week, the morning calm was shattered by an explosion. A bomb planted in a Toyota sedan parked near Nordeen's home had been detonated by remote control as he drove by. The blast hurled Nordeen's car across the street; the captain's decapitated body was found more than 100 ft. away in the yard of an abandoned house...