Word: fords
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...communities are braced for the challenge of multilingualism. At Salina Elementary School in the shadow of the hulking Ford Rouge auto plant in Dearborn, Michigan, 90% of the students are native speakers of Arabic. Academically, many of them lag far behind other students in the district. Earlier this year, spurred by the possibility of a five-year, $5 million federal grant, school superintendent Jeremy Hughes proposed forming a two-way Arabic-English program. Not only was the proposal rejected by the local board of education after heated public criticism, but it opened the way for a wholesale attack on bilingual...
Fresh from a two-year sabbatical in Washington, Ford Professor of the Social Sciences Ezra F. Vogel assumed the directorship of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research this month...
...from the press there, and works hard to play down the trappings of celebrity. "People say, 'How do you do it?' I say, 'Stay away from show business,'" Crichton said earlier this month. He was driving to lunch, headed inland from the coast in one of those heavy-browed Ford things that take a lot of fossil fuel to slake. A couple of years ago, he was peeved that a Vanity Fair article said he drove a tonier, more expensive Land Rover. Then, he had marched this interviewer to the window in his office and pointed at the brawny Ford...
Perhaps if Ford, and corporate America in general, spent less time on public relations [BUSINESS, Sept. 4] and more time on quietly getting things done in a steady and unwavering pursuit of excellence, it would not be forced to play catch up so often. How appropriate that Ford's best-selling car is named after the bull. IAN M. HODGE Rochester, New York...
...really want to go back to the '70s? To gas shortages and Watergate, to blaxploitation movies and big lapels, to Charlie's Angels and the Ford Administration? Not really. What makes soul singer-producer-instrumentalist D'Angelo's new album, Brown Sugar, so winning is that he doesn't so much take the listener back to the '70s as update the musical spirit of that time for '90s listeners. His songs have the seductive textures of the R.-and-B. hits of the '70s, evoking Marvin Gaye and the Isley Brothers, but D'Angelo's style is spare and restrained...