Word: fording
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leontief used his ideas to assist the U.S. government in World War II as a consultant to the Department of Labor. He also received funding from the Ford Foundation, which he used to establish the Harvard Research Project on the Structure of the American Economy...
...business. The economies of scale increasingly favor the multinational giants. And more of the smaller firms are deciding they'll fare best by joining with a strong partner. That's why safe, sensible Volvo of Sweden last week agreed to allow its car division to be bought by Ford, the No. 2 U.S. automaker, for $6.5 billion. The deal takes Ford closer to its goal of becoming a "world car" company. "The beauty of this deal is that Volvo is a premium brand with premium profit margins," says Scott Merlis, who follows autos for Wasserstein Perella Securities...
...White Guy). In Pretty Fly the punk band Offspring mocks whites who adopt hip-hop styles, singing, "He may not have a clue/ And he may not have style/ But everything he lacks/ Well he makes up in denial." Irish-American rap-rocker Everlast, whose new CD, Whitey Ford Sings the Blues, has proved to be a commercial hit, says the song makes him laugh: "They ain't talking about me, 'cause I'll beat the s___ out of every one of those guys." In fact, Everlast feels confident enough about his standing in the rap world to take...
...last apology and slightly brushed one of the columns and nobody but me seemed to notice, I had this fleeting wish to be on msnbc again, to have my director run the videotape again and again while I blistered the Congress for turning Bill Clinton into the new Gerald Ford...
Under an hour later, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Ezra F. Vogel explains to incoming students that Foreign Cultures 26, "Industrial East Asia" will examine the political and economic transformation of the Four Tigers of Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore. He adds that his course is excellent preparation for aspiring investment bankers trying to make it in the Pacific Rim. Hundreds of economics and applied math concentrators mob him after lecture, pledging their intention to enroll...