Word: returned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Yale, Ford worked in the company's engineering department before going into the Navy in April 1941. But in August 1943, a month before his 26th birthday, Ford was released from active duty so that he could return to Detroit to help put the Ford Motor Co. back on its feet. Years of erratic one- man rule by old Henry had left the company a shambles, and the Government was afraid the firm would not be able to produce the amphibious vehicles and planes needed for the war effort...
...ministers from around the world who gathered in Washington last week for a meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund were startled to hear the U.S. Treasury Secretary suggest a new role for gold in international economic affairs. To be sure, Baker was not advocating a return to the gold standard, in which the price of the precious metal would be fixed in all the major currencies. But the Secretary said countries might use an index of the worldwide prices of gold and other heavily traded commodities as a partial guide in coordinating economic policies. If that index...
...making adjustments to the fact that their wife is not just like dear old mom." Says Randy Treichler, 31, a married graduate student at the University of California at Davis: "Both men and women in our generation have learned to open up and talk. I don't see a return to the old male-female roles. Our thinking is very influenced by the changes that came about in the 1960s...
...emerges from its Manhattan high-rises, takes a limo to the office and sits down to run the computer age. At the same hour, folks come in from Brooklyn or Queens to play the worker-bee roles of secretaries, cab drivers, souvlaki vendors and cops. After work they return home in underground cattle cars. The subway straps might be handcuffs...
...feels exploited or even despondent, let him reflect upon the cheering fact that without his presence the British government would be spending still more of the money it so patently lacks. He may then view his summer in the light of a charitable contribution to the British economy and return to his native climes in a rosy glow of pleasant self-righteousness...