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In the late 1960s, Ford set about developing a third-generation Cortina, which would be produced in higher volumes than before, and following the recent merger of Ford of Britain and Ford of Germany into the modern-day Ford of Europe, the car marked the convergence of the German Taunus and British Cortina platforms with only minor differences between the two, hence the car's internal name TC1, standing for Taunus-Cortina.
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That remained the state of affairs until the late 1960s when Harald Loe ( at the time a professor at the Royal Dental College in Aarhus, Denmark ) demonstrated that a chlorhexidine compound could prevent the build-up of dental plaque.
Farming of abalone began in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Japan and China.
Collins decided to record it in the late 1960s amid an atmosphere of counterculture introspection ; she was part of an encounter group that ended a contentious meeting by singing " Amazing Grace " as it was the only song to which all the members knew the words.
The last of the Ainu households disappeared in the late 1960s, when Yamanaka Kitaro committed suicide after the death of his wife.
His attitude towards conjectures was that one should not dignify a guess as a conjecture lightly, and in the Taniyama case, the evidence was only there after extensive computational work carried out from the late 1960s.
By the late 1960s he had started to become interested in scientific areas outside of mathematics.
From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, following the creation of the state of Israel, most of these Jews fled their countries of birth and are now mostly concentrated in Israel.
One story is that The Rolling Stones went to stay at Korner's house late one night, in the early 1960s, after a performance.
Although he himself was a blues purist, Korner criticised better-known British blues musicians during the blues boom of the late 1960s for their blind adherence to Chicago blues, as if the music came in no other form.
This practice was particularly popular in the late 1960s.
However, the late 1950s and early 1960s saw the onset of a lasting transformation of the city by the tourist industry.
The local economy is based upon tourism directed to the beaches of the Costa Blanca and particularly the second residence construction boom which started in the 1960s and reinvigorated again by the late 1990s.
From the late 1820s until the mid 1960s, Arapawa Island was a base for whaling in the Sounds.
The region was a major producer of raw opium ( hence the name Afyon ) until the late 1960s when under international pressure, from the USA in particular, the fields were burnt and production ceased.
Remains of the walls of this fort were discovered west of the castle when excavating the foundations for a new post office and telephone exchange building in the late 1960s.
By the late 1960s, the area of LAFTA had a population of 220 million and produced about $ 90 billion of goods and services annually.
Throughout the late 1950s and into the 1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union had been developing a series of missile systems with the ability to shoot down incoming ICBM warheads.
* About 50 people in Vernon, Florida collected insurance claims for loss-of-limb accidents in the late 1950s and early 1960s ; this was more than two-thirds of all such claims in the United States during that time.
He changed his surname from Einstein ( to avoid confusion with the famous physicist ) and began a comedy career that quickly made him a regular on variety and talk shows during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
A standardized form of the Basque language, called Euskara Batua, was developed by the Basque Language Academy in the late 1960s.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Thackeray built the party by forming temporary alliances with nearly all of Maharashtra's political parties.
However, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, base-stealing was brought back to prominence primarily by Luis Aparicio and Maury Wills, who broke Cobb's modern single-season record by stealing 104 bases in 1962.
During the late 1960s, the Baseball Players Union became much stronger and conflicts between owners and the players ' union led to major work stoppages in 1972, 1981, and 1994.
The BASIC language was also central to the HP Time-Shared BASIC system in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the Pick operating system.
Following a brief modeling career in the late 1960s, Berenson became a freelance photographer.
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In the private sector he has worked for Mitre Corp., GE, Ford, General Motors ; during the late 1970s Singer consulted with Exxon, Shell, Unocal Sun Oil, and ARCO on oil pricing ; and Lockheed Martin, Martin – Marietta, McDonnell-Douglas, ANSER, and IBM on space research.
Ford reportedly spent several million dollars in an audit of Ferrari factory assets and in legal negotiations, only to have Ferrari unilaterally cut off talks at a late stage due to disputes about the ability to direct open wheel racing.
Hackman competed in Sports Car Club of America races driving an open wheeled Formula Ford in the late seventies.
" The next day, Cagney was slightly late on set, incensing Ford.
In British oval racing, the term Production car racing has been used as an alternative for hot rods, as run in the West Country during the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, and a Production car world championship race was held twice in the 1970s, won by Spence Morgan in 1974 and Ralph Sanders in 1975, both driving Ford Anglias.
In the late 19th century pioneers such as Frederick Winslow Taylor and Henry Ford recognized the limitations of the methods being used in mass production at the time and the subsequent varying quality of output.
Carter Winston, from " The Survivor ", has a small but important role late in the 1984 tie-in novel The Final Reflection by John M. Ford.
To accelerate the development of industrialization, Stalin pragmatically created joint venture contracts with major American private enterprises, such as Ford Motor Company, that under state supervision assisted in developing the basis of industry of the Soviet economy from the late 1920s to 1930s.
Ford, a self-described " late bloomer ," became fascinated with acting.
Ford soon dropped the " J " and worked for Universal Studios, playing minor roles in many television series throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Gunsmoke, Ironside, The Virginian, The F. B. I., Love, American Style, and Kung Fu.
Starting in the late 1990s, Ford appeared in several critically derided and commercially disappointing movies, including Six Days Seven Nights ( 1998 ), Random Hearts ( 1999 ), K-19: The Widowmaker ( 2002 ), Hollywood Homicide ( 2003 ), Firewall ( 2006 ), and Extraordinary Measures ( 2010 ).
Too late to turn around, it was forced to fund the miniseries with Ford Foundation money meant for Sesame Street.
Henry Ford helped build a large truck and tractor plant ( GAZ ) in the late 1920s, sending along engineers and mechanics, including future labour leader Walter Reuther.
McNamara was a force behind the wildly popular Ford Falcon sedan, introduced in the fall of 1959 — a small, simple and inexpensive-to-produce counter to the large, expensive vehicles prominent in the late 1950s.
In late 1964, Ford contracted Holman & Moody to prepare ten 427-powered Mustangs to contest the National Hot Rod Association's ( NHRA ) A / Factory Experimental class in the 1965 drag racing season.
Ford Motor Company wound down operations at its Highland Park plant in the late 1950s, and in the late decades of the 20th century the city experienced many of the same difficulties as Detroit-declines in population and tax base accompanied by an increase in street crime.
The Department has around 9 Patrol vehicles ranging from 4-5 Dodge Chargers, 1 Ford Explorer, 1 Dodge Sprinter Van, and 1 Ford Escape Hybrid outfitted as a Mobile Radar Photo Enforcement Unit made by Redflex Systems and acquired in late 2011.
In the late 1700s and early 1800s, pioneers began settling in the area they called ‘‘ the Ford ’’ because it was a place where travelers could cross the river.
In 2011, the Leverage episode " The 10 Li ' l Grifters Job ", Timothy Hutton's character Nate Ford appears at a costumed murder mystery party as Ellery Queen, in a homage to his late father, Jim.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, sales of the Taurus declined as it lost market share to Japanese midsize sedans and as Ford shifted resources towards developing SUVs.
Ford backed Cosworth with creating a new interim design for IndyCar racing in the late 1980s, the DFS, which merged DFR technology into the ageing DFX design, but it was eventually rendered obsolete by advancing technology.
) Its smoothly sloped line there looked more like a 1950s Studebaker ( or even early Ford Thunderbird ) than the more aggressive-looking late -' 50s American Fords, possibly because its British designers used wind-tunnel testing and streamlining.
In September 1965, RCA and Lear Jet Corp. teamed up to release the first stereo 8-track tape music Cartridges ( Stereo 8 ) which were first used in the 1966 line of Ford automobiles and were popular throughout the late 1960s and 1970s.
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