Hints and tips:
...[but] it’s going to take more time than we expected 18 months ago,” Ford chief executive Jim Farley told investors this month....
...“We made this decision after a thorough review and careful consideration,” said Jim Hackett, Ford president and chief executive....
...Two members of the US Congress, Zoe Lofgren and Jim Sensenbrenner, have introduced “Aaron’s law”....
...What attracted activists and the press to this case was its appearance of racism, its (ultimately illusory) conformity to Jim Crow archetypes....
...In the Clinton years, the late Jim Chapin, a New York City Democratic adviser, used to mock Republicans who took heart from polls showing their policies to be popular – as long as they were not identified...
...Democrats won the Senate back in 2006 when they recruited gun-enthusiasts as candidates (Jim Webb in Virginia, Jon Tester in Montana, Bob Casey Jr in Pennsylvania), enforced a candidates’ vow of silence...
...It follows Huck on a rafting voyage down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave....
...Just this month, Florida governor Charlie Crist decided to pardon the late rock star Jim Morrison of The Doors, who was convicted of exposing himself to a crowd at the Dinner Key Auditorium in 1969....
...Ball Four, Jim Bouton’s magnificent diary of the 1969 baseball season, paints a fond portrait of Mike Marshall, a rookie pitcher who had studied maths at university, at a time when only a handful of major...
...The writer is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard More columns at www.ft.com/caldwell...
...Jim Lentz, head of Toyota’s US marketing arm, said that “the entire automotive industry struggled in June as weakening consumer confidence weighed on sales”....
...For about four decades, the US has had a system of racial preference (affirmative action) meant to remedy the dire consequences of its previous system of racial preference (Jim Crow)....
...“It sounds like they’re waiting for reaction to see whether people like it,” said Jessica Caldwell, analyst at Edmunds.com, a car-pricing website....
...Slavery and Jim Crow have exactly zero influential defenders in the US....
...Cuba seemed to have found an alternative to US exploitation and (it being the Jim Crow era) racism....
...His visits to buck up Missouri senator Jim Talent and California Rep. Richard Pombo arguably helped doom their candidacies....
...But the Iowa Republican Jim Leach, one of the bill’s sponsors, is right, too, when he says: “Never before has it been so easy to lose so much money so quickly at such a young age.”...
...Gideon Rachman: The neocons’ pre-emptive strike on Jim Baker So what do the neo-cons make of the “Iraq study group” – the much-ballyhooed commission, headed by James Baker and Lee Hamilton....
...most spectacular corruption cases of the late 1980s and early 1990s involved members of the Democratic majority: Mario Biaggi of New York, Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois, Walter Tucker of California and Jim...
...This is the view of Jim Jordan, Democratic consultant, who told Associated Press this week that "deal-making and compromise depend to a certain extent on quiet and privacy"....
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