Word: fording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans, including former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and a Harvard Medical School graduate will receive the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the White House announced yesterday...
Also to be honored at the ceremony is Ford, the 38th president, who will be recognized for "his honesty and integrity" and his efforts to restore confidence in government after the Watergate scandal led to Richard M. Nixon's resignation, a tribute from the White House said...
...dramatically restructure its economy for a new, postindustrial age after the violent recessions of the 1970s and early '80s. And the revolution was accomplished with the help of lavish federal deficits (which are only now being paid down), tax cuts and extensive, bottom-up restructuring that transformed dinosaurs like Ford into world-class competitors. Ever since the Meiji era, when the nation ended centuries of isolation, Japan has proved expert at adopting American ideas to its own revolutionary needs. In the eyes of investors, at least, that would suggest that the Nikkei may indeed be the next...
...some point. Like now. After years of acceleration, sales of sport-utility vehicles, or SUVs, are slowing--and the turn surely signals tougher times ahead for U.S. carmakers. How soon? That's the key question. Overall, car sales are strong, and SUV sales remain fairly brisk. Just last week Ford reported record quarterly earnings (adjusted for one-time events...
...better. Carmakers tooled up for exponential SUV demand, and now find themselves so overstocked that they're laying on goodies to keep moving the metal. GM, which a few years ago sold virtually every Suburban at list price, has incentives on its Suburban, Yukon and Tahoe lines. Ford is offering low-rate financing on the Explorer, and DaimlerChrysler has lowered lease prices on its Jeep Grand Cherokee and is cutting production...