Word: fording
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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After realizing how much was riding on its tires, Ford has decided to let the next group of Explorer-buying customers choose their brand. And one of the choices will definitely be Michelin...
...relief fund; he notes that the average SAG members earns only $5,000 a year In the nick of time, like the delivery boy in a Domino's Pizza spot, star quality arrived. Jay Leno donated $10,000 to a SAG strike fund, and soon Kevin Spacey, Harrison Ford, Nicolas Cage, George Clooney and Helen Hunt had ponied up amounts of from $10,000 to $200,000. Now that famous faces were attached to celebrities, the media woke up to the strike. So did some of the citizenry: a 16-year-old boy, who saw Richard Dreyfuss present the union...
...reason to hope. Many former VPs have kept the former president's cabinet when the president died or was deposed during office. Mineta can always pray for Clinton to catch a sudden case of pneumonia as Harrison did from making a speech without a hat on. Or, since Ford did keep all of Nixon's cabinet, he can hope for a second impeachment...
...same time, an internal Ford memo dated March 12, 1999, showed that Firestone had "major reservations" about launching a recall of 16-in. Wilderness tires in Saudi Arabia because the two companies might then have to notify the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the U.S. of their action. A few months later, after Firestone continued to maintain that there was no problem with the tires, Ford unilaterally initiated a quiet replacement campaign in the Middle East, without alerting anyone. The testimony also confirmed that Firestone may well have delayed the recall a month by insisting that Ford sign...
...cardinal rule by failing to own up from the start to all it knows. Just like fast-food chain Jack in the Box, which initially blamed its meat supplier for the deadly outbreak of E. coli in its hamburgers in 1993, Firestone has continued to point fingers, either at Ford for recommending a lower tire pressure or at drivers for not maintaining the tires properly...