Conclusion V. Sources INTRODUCTION “For seven years the Ford Motor Company sold cars in which it knew hundreds of people would needlessly burn to death.” Mark Dowie‚ Author of Pinto Madness (8) One of the biggest automotive news stories in the latter part of the 1970’s dealt with tales of exploding Ford Pintos and the considerable awards civil court juries were presenting to victims of accidents involving the cars. Ford produced the Pinto automobile from 1971 to 1980. Initially the
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Japanese imports from Toyota and Datsun in May of 1968‚ the Ford Motor Company‚ based upon a recommendation by then vice-president Lee Iacocca‚ decided to introduce a subcompact car and produce it domestically. (Leggett‚ 1999) The Ford Pinto appeared on the market in 1970‚ and sales of the car were good for the first few years. The engineers designed the gas tank to be positioned between the bumper and the rear axle. This design
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Moral Intensity of Ford Pinto Case Magnitude of the Consequences From the perspective of senior managers who made the decision‚ the magnitude of consequences introducing the Ford Pinto to the market is small. To support this point of view‚ Ford vice President firstly cited several statistical evidences. In 1975‚ only 12 of 848 deaths‚ which associated with passenger-car accidents in which fires also occurred‚ involved occupants of Pintos. And in 1976‚ the number of occupant fatalities in fire-associated
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America ’s Most Significant Events Jennifer Blaxon 135 9/25/2011 Gary Grimm America ’s Most Significant Events Introduction This paper will address each important event of a decade‚ starting from the 1950’s throughout the 1990’s. These are the events I feel were most significant to America at that time‚ and also helped to shape the America we live in today. Understanding each event and its purpose will lead to having a better
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Using your notes‚ textbook or your own knowledge answer the following 1. Answer the following questions dealing with President Kennedy’s term in office: a. What did President Kennedy want to succeed at where he felt that President Eisenhower had failed? (504) b. What did President Kennedy promise which would become the name of his domestic policy and what 4 areas was it meant to improve? (512) c. Who created the Peace Corps and Alliance for Progress and what was the purpose for both? (507) 2. What
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CASE STUDY THE FORD PINTO Q1.What moral issues does the pinto case raise? The moral issues raised in Pinto case are that business should not put a value on human life and avoid known dangers. As ford thought they could get away with a dangerous automobile by paying off those lawsuits from people who were injured and the families of the dead. Ford thought it was more cost effective not to fix the dangerous condition than to spend the money to save people. Q2. Suppose ford officials were asked
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The Political Career of Richard Nixon 1. Nixon ’s Beginning in Politics 2. Emergence in National Politics A. The Hiss Case B. Nixon ’s Political Obituary C. Resurgence as a presidential candidate 3. The 37th President A. Nixon ’s Appointment ’s B. Foreign Policy 1. Nixon ’s plans for Europe 2. Vietnam C. Domestic Policy
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Speech for Henry Ford presentation Chiara Slide 1: When Henry Ford Invented the assembly line he changed the entire factory industry he made an extremely long process into a quick sharp exercise‚ Henry got the idea from one of his workers who in turn go the idea from a pig dis-assembly line‚ the worker saw who each person would do only one job in the chain but by the end of the line each part of the pig had been taken out. The invention of the assembly line was and is still monumental to the
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Principles of Management Henry Ford – A Great Innovator Submitted by: Souvik Chowdhury(05) Sachin Hegde (18) Kaustubh Patankar (34) Shishir Sahu (42) Shailendra Rumade (43) Rachana Vichare (54) Henry Ford In Early Days: Ford was born on July 30‚ 1863. He was the first child of the six children born to a farmer family in Dearborn‚ Michigan. A born tinkerer of mechanical equipments‚ Ford set off at the young age of sixteen to the nearby town of Detroit to work three years as a machinist’s apprentice
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Famous Leaders – Henry Ford Henry Ford is the founder of the Ford Motor Company‚ at the same time an inventor of the modern day assembly line method of production for his Model T cars. Nowadays‚ due to the strength of his leadership‚ Ford Motor Company has dealerships all over the world‚ and is one of the largest car manufacturers in the world. Nevertheless every leader has their strength and weakness. So for starters I would go on with strength as Ford lived in a farm that was
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