Word: fords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...After beating back the youth at Winged Foot Thursday with birdies on the last three holes and a 4-under-par 66, perennial comeback-story Jon Daly faces a tough time staying on top. After the round, the Sisyphean Betty Ford grad said winning it all would be "a shock." Can Daly, the man who walked out of the U.S. Open midround, possibly keep...
...need footgear. All power; no loafers. Moguls can affect a Gandhi-like purity. Putting the best barefoot forward in this trend was TIME's 1996 cover shot of Netscape founder Marc Andreessen displaying his pedicure-needy toes. Other celebrities who have recently unshod for the camera: Harrison Ford and Donald Trump (PEOPLE), Jackie Chan and Matthew McConaughey (GQ) and Yahoo! co-founder David Filo (Newsweek...
...going to write a 350-page book on redesigning an American car, it might as well be the 1996 Ford Taurus...
Unfortunately, the most interesting sections of the book--when Walton moves away from the minute intricacies of constructing the Taurus and focuses on the larger issues surrounding car building in America--are all too rare. Walton explains, in an enlightening digression, that the design of the "'96 Ford Taurus was unique in that the company set out to make a car in the Japanese mold--they aimed to spend more money and less time, and to create something which could rival the smooth precision of a Toyota-built automobile. In short, their mission statement was 'Beat Camry."' In another chapter...
This contrast between subtlety and silliness, improbability and believability, makes for a thrilling yet well-balanced summer blockbuster. And, best of all, the ever-reliable Ford is there to save the day. Though the action seldom descends below 15,000 feet, and Ford wears a rumpled suit and tie rather than his trademark fedora and bull-whip, as always, his hero triumphs and survives with what is perhaps his greatest treasure: his family...