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...devised a $56-a-month credit plan for Ford buyers ("$56 for '56"); later he was intent on the Mustang's exceeding the Falcon's all-time one-year auto sales record of 417,000 ("417 by 4/17"); still later, he introduced his "shuck the losers" plan to winnow out unprofitable departments. In 1960, Iacocca took over as head of the Ford car division...
Journalists defend the polls. "Sure, they're skewing the race," Woodlief said. "I'm not so sure that's a bad thing. They winnow out the candidates. They give a framework to the competition. At some point we have to look at the probable winners...
...place De Gaulle introduced the country's unusual two-round electoral system. Basically the system is designed to winnow out fringe-party candidates in the first-round vote, so that only larger parties survive for the second round...
INSURANCE PROBES. These provide an almost inexhaustible supply of horror stories. Denver District Attorney Dale Tooley discovered that 55 insurance companies used Factual Service Bureau Inc. of Chicago, whose gumshoes impersonated clergymen and doctors. This enabled them to winnow information from hospitals, the FBI, the Veterans Administration, the Social Security Administration and the IRS. Because of Tooley's probe, 20 individuals and companies -including Factual Service, Home In demnity Co. of New York, Northwestern National Insurance Co. of Milwaukee and Reliance Insurance Co. of Ohio -are being prosecuted for theft...
Although five Crimson divers qualified during the regular season for this competition--which is one of six regional meets designed to winnow out 40 finalists for the national championships later this month--only four chose to make the trip...