Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ford is supposed to be a hotbed of good ideas," said Owen Bieber, president of the United Auto Workers. "We're going to give them the opportunity to demonstrate that the same is true in the labor-relations arena." Bieber's 1.1 < million-member union thereupon served notice last week, well before its labor contract expires on Sept. 14, that the No. 2 U.S. automaker would be the U.A.W.'s priority target in seeking a new three-year pact. The designation was meant to put increased bargaining pressure on the target company, a pattern that in years past meant...
Bieber may have little trouble getting Ford and its 104,000 U.A.W. employees to reach an accord. The company passed much bigger rival GM in profits last year ($3.3 billion vs. $2.9 billion) largely on the basis of cutbacks begun in 1980 that cost some 50,000 workers their jobs. With that painful exercise over, Ford's profits are expected to be just as good or better this year. Meantime, the company's domestic-market share climbed from 18.2% last year to 20.1% in July, and some Ford plants are humming along at more than 100% of normal capacity. Facing...
Celebrity confessionals replete with stories of loony behavior, backstage debauchery, family trauma and drug and alcohol abuse are all the vogue now -- it might as well be called the Betty Ford Clinic and Famous Writers School. But Patty Duke's contribution to the genre is something special, in part because she speaks with unusual candor, in part because Co-Author Kenneth Turan tells her story with artful artlessness. A child champion on The $64,000 Challenge who confessed at a congressional hearing that the show was rigged, Duke grew to win an Oscar at 16 as Helen Keller...
...fourth honeymoon, he and his new bride, Alexis Maas, chose to cruise the Mediterranean by chartering the regal Parts V, a $6.5 million, 147-ft. world- class motor yacht. When renowned Manhattan Jeweler Harry Winston wanted to lay some choice diamonds before J. Paul Getty Jr. and Henry Ford II down in Palm Beach, Fla., he decided to rent the Atlantique as a 131-ft. floating showcase. And when Magazine Mogul Malcolm Forbes wants to mix celebrities like Barbara Walters and Henry Kissinger with advertising tycoons, he lures them with the offer of an evening spin around Manhattan aboard...
...woods with his one-ton Ford flatbed truck by 7. He had with him his chain saw, an 18-in., yellow Swedish-made Pioneer, a thermos of water and another one of coffee. He was cutting wood on a ranch where loggers had taken the big timber. He had bought what they had left, tops from big trees and an occasional standing tree. He commenced work in a clearing the loggers had left surrounded by woods that cut off the breeze...