Word: fords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What about the case in which the Ford company was ordered to pay $128 million to a man whose Pinto gas tank exploded? (The punitive judgement was overturned on appeal...
...most immediate question facing Taiwan last week was the future of its booming economy; the island's annual trade of $24 billion ranks it among he world's top 20. Many large American corporations, including Ford, RCA and Goodyear, announced that they would continue their investments, but not everyone was reassured. Said Robert Parker, president of Taiwan's American Chamber of Commerce: "There's no use pretending that normalization on the terms we got won't hurt. It will." Still, Taipei was partially reassured by Washington's statement that more than 50 accords between...
...House aide: "It is going to be hard for Senators to raise hell if the power structures in their home states say that China is a good deal." The opposition is hurt further by the fact that Carter is backed on China by some prominent Republicans, including ex-Presidents Ford and Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger...
Longest Wait for Godot: Francis Ford Coppola's Viet Nam epic, Apocalypse, Now, first scheduled for 1977, now due next fall...
...give clear shape to whatever they are finally to be. At first, they could scarcely be recognized except by what they were not. Mainly, they were not the '60s. To an exhausted, convalescent society this was a relief but also disconcerting. It was not easy, even with Jerry Ford in the White House, to begin watching for pratfalls instead of apocalypses. Still, by the time Jimmy Carter tried to whip up a moral crusade for energy conservation, much of the country seemed to have perfected the knack of shrugging off the alarms of crisis. It was easy to read...