Word: fording
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latecomer to the Saab wooing game, which began when Ford started courting the company earlier this year. After the collapse of those negotiations, auto-industry analysts expected Italy's Fiat to be the winning suitor. For Saab-Scania, which lost $123 million on its car-making operations in the first half of 1989, the advantage of the deal was access to GM's deep pockets. GM will gain badly needed production capacity at Saab's five plants in Europe, plus a stronger position in the U.S. and European luxury-car markets...
Vernal Brown, 39, does what used to be a man's job: making front bumpers in a Ford auto plant in St. Louis. Though her paycheck was essential for paying the family's bills, she says, her husband "expected the same as if I was a housewife. He told me that if I couldn't take care of the needs at home and have his food ready, I should quit." Instead Brown quit her marriage. Among the upper middle class, male rhetoric may sound enlightened, but the bottom line is much the same. In The Second Shift, a study...
Wise, 41, may be poised to become as important an inventor and entrepreneur as Thomas Edison or Henry Ford. His red contact lenses are already on 100,000 chickens nation-wide, and his company, Animalens Inc., is growing...
...VISION: PHOTOGRAPHY BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. This smartly conceived show, which introduces the Metropolitan's new Ford Motor Company Collection of 20th century photographs, highlights the camera's courtship of pure form. Through...
...same stressful time, Detroit's automakers will be going through a major changing of the guard: all three companies are expected to get new chief executives in the space of two years. Late last week Ford Chairman Donald Petersen, 63, who helped engineer that company's heroic comeback, said he will turn over the posts of chairman and CEO on March 1 to Harold Poling, 64, a vice chairman...