Word: fords
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Quietly, a host of U.S. companies ?General Motors, Ford, IBM, Genesco, among others?have been negotiating to sell goods to China or set up plants there. But some of the biggest hopes are for Yankee traders to buy oil for the lamps of America. Last week, in a move that seems to signal a new economic pragmatism by Peking's post-Mao leaders, Coastal States Gas Corp. became the first U.S. company ever to buy oil from the People's Republic. The Texas firm signed a deal to bring 3.6 million bbl. of crude into California, beginning early next...
...cancer; in Washington, D.C. As the patrician chairman of Philadelphia's third largest bank, the Girard, Gardner substantially increased the number of the bank's black employees and contributed to the city's cultural life by supporting such institutions as the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1976 President Ford selected the moderate Republican for a 14-year term on the Fed's seven-member board of governors...
Franklin L. Ford, chairman of the committee and McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, said yesterday Bowersock gave a "careful, informational report" on the progress of negotiations between the administration and Brustein...
...purpose of yesterday's meeting. Ford said, was to "bring all the committee members up to date" on Brustein's possible appointment...
...committee put off until its December meeting discussion of the "philosophical issues" of Brustein's appointment--such as the role of the committee if Brustein is appointed and the nature of the relationship between the repertory company and undergraduates at the Loeb, Ford said...