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...Rapid response to Republican attacks has been a key to Ford's unlikely strength in Tennessee. In early October, for example, the Republican candidate, Bob Corker, accused Ford of being pro-amnesty for illegal immigrants. Ford's response was immediate and lethal: an ad claiming that Corker's construction company had employed illegal aliens. In fact, a Corker work site had been raided by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. "Rapid response is a rule I set down for all our candidates this year," says Senator Charles Schumer of New York, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC...
...LAST HURRAH JOHN FORD...
This bluff and vigorous Ford film, based on the Edwin O'Connor roman à clef about four-time Boston Mayor James Curley, winks at the chicanery involved in getting into office and staying there. Spencer Tracy, right, is Frank Skeffington, on his final run for a job he believes is his by divine right. Doing favors, making deals, smiting enemiesto Frank, that's just politics. Has anything changed in 50 years? The big-city machine the film elegizes may be gone, but the malady lingers...
...could otherwise get coverage from their employer. Employees are now often paying more to cover their dependents themselves. Following the automobile industry's lead, many firms--about half of all businesses--are conducting audits, requiring marriage licenses or birth certificates to verify coverage for some spouses and dependents. Ford has cut more than 50,000 people from its rolls and Chrysler 26,000. That's a drop in the bucket when you expect to spend $2.3 billion on health care, Chrysler spokesman David Elshoff says, "but at that amount, you're looking at every option to bring costs down...
Bush to Meet Big 3 Ailing automakers seek help The President plans a November meeting with the CEOs of GM, Ford and Chrysler, which all reported big losses last week. On the agenda: incentives to build cars powered by alternative fuels...