Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ford Motor...
...switch? Rising sticker prices and the phaseout of income-tax deductions of sales taxes and the interest on consumer car loans are major reasons. Says Bill Willis, fleet and leasing manager for Ford Motor's Ford Division: "Leasing permits people to drive upscale cars, complete with options, without making any initial investment...
...gray-haired 69-year-old wearing a flannel shirt and khaki pants. He may suddenly appear behind any Wal-Mart checkout counter to help the clerk approve a personal check. Or you may see the same grandfatherly figure driving his red-and-white 1984 Ford pickup through the parking lot, counting customers' cars as he goes. Or he may show up at the loading dock with a bag of doughnuts for a surprised crew of workers. Or, at a new-store opening, he may round up the employees for a pep rally at which he will serve as head cheerleader...
...then there are the daydreams: giant underground loops of superconducting cable that can store vast amounts of electricity for later use; cars that run on tiny, powerful electric motors, drawing current from superconducting storage devices. But even the daydreams are taken at least somewhat seriously. At Ford, for example, a study group has been assembled to rethink the feasibility of the electric car in light of the recent advances in superconductivity. Says IBM Physicist John Baglin: "The question is not 'How can we take this material and do something everyone has wanted to do?' but 'How can we do something...
...real problem that we all must try to deal with. Name-calling, character assassination, and tying partisan politics up with issues that are fundamentally more important only degrade the effort to combat racial bigotry. By feeding these divisive fires, Boyd's cartoon only makes the problem worse. Christopher A. Ford...