Word: fords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus David Riesman said that incoming presidents face hard times, financially and socially...
Much of the film's fun comes from the collision of epic and everyday quirkiness, somewhat reminiscent of when Harrison Ford is momentarily thwarted in saving the United States from corruption by the "out-of-paper" beep from the printer: when the spacecraft have been hovering over the cities for a while, Los Angeleans are given the warning only Los Angeleans would need: not to fire their weapons into the air at the spaceships. When Captain Hiller finally faces off with one of the horrid space aliens, he does what anyone really, really mad would do: he slugs...
Puzzled? Confused? Outraged? Maybe I can explain this by taking you back to the streets of New York City in the 1950s, where games of stickball were played on city streets with a lamppost for a foul line and the bumper of a '52 Ford for second base. When disputes broke out, as they did every three or four minutes, there was never an umpire to settle things. Instead we relied on an unwritten rule known as "Your own man says so!" If a player admitted that, yeah, his teammate was out, that...
...Doles have always endured good-natured ribbing about the antitrust implications of so powerful a merger as theirs, but those barbs seemed real when Dole was named Gerald Ford's running mate in 1976. Mrs. Dole took a leave from the ftc to campaign for him, and returned to her job after Carter's victory. She resigned in 1979 when her husband ran for the 1980 election, and campaigned vigorously for Ronald Reagan after Dole dropped out. Some feminists have criticized her for suspending her own career to help her husband's. Her response: "What we women fought...
...with a clean sheet--if you were going to begin making and selling cars or magazines today, how would you go about it as opposed to how you are doing it now? The answers set in motion a revolution the likes of which hadn't been seen since Henry Ford introduced the assembly line. Like most revolutions, this one has been extremely messy. Such huge firms as Procter & Gamble, Xerox and American Standard have successfully taken a Hammer to their structures...