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Less than two years ago, Akron's Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., the second largest U.S. tiremaker, behind Goodyear, was skidding almost uncontrollably toward bankruptcy. Sales to the U.S. auto industry were sharply off, and some of Firestone's most faithful customers, like Ford, had been turning to France's Michelin for radial tires for certain models. In addition, Firestone was reeling from a 1978 agreement with the Government forcing it to begin recalling up to 10 million of its 500 radial because of possibly dangerous defects. Related consumer and class-action lawsuits against the company sought damages...
...good bet today's game will be more exciting than those two. Supposedly, Joe Restic has cooked up a play that will send ten eligible receivers downfield at once and then drop Ron Cuccia from the Goodyear Blimp. Princeton, on the other hand, has the worst defense this side of Chuck Wepner, including a self-destruct secondary that has allowed over 150 points in five games. A whole team of Bayonne Bleeders living an hour south of Bayonne...
Extensive air-transport service in and out of Miami International Airport has made that city a key jumping-off point for companies doing business in South America. In recent years, more than 100 multinational corporations, including Alcoa, Du Pont, Goodyear and Borden, have opened regional offices in nearby Coral Gables, a ten-minute drive from the airport...
Most creative people are willing to take risks: Mead went to Somoa against the advice of her adviser (he thought it would be safer for a young woman to study the American Indian). They also take advantage of chance. Charles Goodyear discovered the process of vulcanizing rubber after carelessly dropping some raw rubber on a hot stove. Cage makes more intentional use of chance, employing an I Ching--an ancient Chinese book of charts used to determine oracles--to compose some of his music. "Most people who believe that I'm interested in chance don't realize that...
...fact, clad in wool underwear, a frogman's suit, a ski suit, a leather suit, several wool sweaters and a motorcycle helmet. The frigid feat ended in a small New Jersey airfield, after a ritual circling of the Statue of Liberty and a near collision with the Goodyear blimp...