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Ford's array of new models, however, is a sign of the firm's weakness rather than its strength. Ford lags behind General Motors and Chrysler in the area of frontwheel-drive, gas-efficient cars. Ford's troubles date back to a blunder in 1975, when then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Are the New Fall Cars? | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

The Senate Agriculture Committee, however, restored the subsidy and allotment programs, increased dairy price supports and raised the cost of the bill by 40%. The House committee's version was even more generous. But the united front usually exhibited by farm-state legislators, in which each protects the others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Harvest Too Good to Afford | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

Yet Leonard is also an awesome finisher, a man who exploits without compunction an opponent's weakness, punches mercilessly when he sees an opportunity to put his foe down, and turns loose a remorseless killer instinct. That seriousness of purpose seemed to deepen last year after Leonard suffered the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sugar Knows How to Hit, Man | 9/28/1981 | See Source »

Witkoski kept the football flying, tossing up 33 on the day and completing 19 for 196 yards, and attempting to find a weakness in the Harvard secondary by working on sophomore Chris Myers and juniors Jim Mullen and Louis Varsames.

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gridders Walk All Over Columbia, 23-6 | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

The dollar's swift ascent, however, has been almost as unsettling as its previous weakness. American businessmen say that the robust currency has made their products too expensive abroad, and European leaders blame U.S. interest rates and the strong dollar for prolonging Europe's recession and fueling inflation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heady Days for the Dollar | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

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