Word: fords
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most important alterations he made in the Johnson budget was to add $25 million for experimental education, enough to fund 15 to 20 projects. "The name of the game is learning, not teaching," says Ed Meade, a high-ranking HEW consultant on loan from the Ford Foundation. "Our focus is going to be to find out how kids learn...
...they enjoy a remarkable degree of government protection against foreign competition. Despite a 50% cut in tariffs this year as a result of the 1964 Kennedy Round of global tariff negotiations, imported autos still cost two or three times as much in Japan as in their country of origin. Ford's new semicompact Maverick, which sells for $1,995 in Detroit, carries a $4,167 price tag in Tokyo...
...Japanese manufacturing firms. General Motors Chairman James Roche recently called Japan "the most notorious" of the world's industrial countries for this form of protectionism. Veiled threats of retaliation-perhaps including import restrictions on Japanese cars-have finally begun to melt Japanese resistance. Both Borg-Warner and Ford are anxious to begin producing automatic transmissions in Japan with 50% local participation, and the Japanese government is expected to approve the arrangements soon...
...That those inside had been warned from the moment they entered the building that their action could get them in trouble, and "they had twelve hours [since Dean Ford's 4 p.m. statement] to get out of there and nobody...
Flym, saying the Commonwealth had failed to prove that the owners of the building had participated in the decision to take action, cited the fact that while Watson said the decision was reached about 6:30 p.m., Glimp said it was made before Dean Ford's announcement from the steps of Widener around...