Word: fords
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...friends say he is really bored now with his energy job and yearns for his past engagement in foreign affairs or national security. One of them called recently to talk about the price of gas, and all Schlesinger wanted to discuss was the Middle East. After being fired by Ford, Schlesinger became Ronald Reagan's principal foreign policy adviser for the six months before the 1976 convention. Reagan aides called him a couple of times a week, and Schlesinger asked only that his advice not be made public. When Reagan lost, Schlesinger, the honideological pragmatist, moved easily to Carter...
...survey has the drawback of making departments who do well feel that the quality of education or the espirt de corps isn't what matters, but how you rank," David S. Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, said yesterday...
...Westigard states incorrectly, I believe, that TVA is planning 17 new nuclear power plants. There are six currently under construction, but Dawn Ford, chief of the citizen's action office, noted yesterday that they were all begun before either of the Carter appointments were made. There are no additional plants planned. David Freeman, who has labeled the plan for a nuclear breeder reactor a "turkey," has also called for a reassessment of TVA's reliance on nuclear power...
...Ford has been hit with more than 50 civil lawsuits charging negligence in placing the Pinto's gas tank far in the back of the car, where it is vulnerable to rear-end collision damage. In June 1978, Ford announced the recall of 1.5 million Pintos built between 1971 and 1976 to remedy this defect, which does not exist in later models. But the Indiana case is the first in which Ford-or any automaker-has been charged with a criminal offense...
...case is based on an Indiana criminal code provision adopted in 1977 permitting corporations to be charged with criminal acts; 22 other states allow this. Ford contended that it should not be tried ex post facto on a 1977 law for a car built in 1973 involving an accident in 1978. But the judge bought the prosecutor's argument that the charge was not based on the Pinto design fault, but rather on the fact that Ford had permitted the car "to remain on Indiana highways, knowing Full well its defects." Manufacturers, said the prosecutor, should be "on notice...