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Ford Madox Ford
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Featuring over 500 entries written by an international team of scholars, The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction is an authoritative reference resource of up to date scholarship. Arranged in three volumes covering British and Irish fiction, American fiction, and World fiction, the entries cover major writers and their works; the genres and sub-genres of fiction (including crime fiction, sci fi, chick lit, the noir novel, and the avant garde novel); and the major movements, debates, and rubrics within the field. My entry on the novelist, critic, poet and editor Ford Madox Ford is in Volume 1 of the Encyclopedia
The American Nightmare: The Ford Edsel Flop and Sputnik Terror
During the late 1950s, it seemed everyone was pelting Ford Motor Companyâs ill-fated Edsel. What was supposed to be the car of the future and an emblem of American prestige had turned into a symbol of Americaâs sharp decline. Two years earlier, Ford promised consumers riding on the waves of economic good times that they would no longer have to settle for their old entry-level Fordâs. Instead of allowing middle-class Ford customers to defect to General Motorâs flashy medium-price brands that showed personality and prestige, in 1957 Ford launched the Edsel as the perfect car for these âprofessional...famil[ies].â Yet soon after the Edsel launched, the Soviet Unionâs Sputnik satellite made the good times come to a grinding halt. The triumphant America that Ford designed the Edsel for ceased to exist once the Soviets seemingly conquered outer space, and the failed Edsel only fueled Americaâs fears that they were slipping behind the Russians. Ultimately Ford tried selling excess, American technological prowess, and the American Dream when the Edsel and Sputnik were proof that all three were in jeopardy
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The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
This is an edition of Ford's modernist masterpiece, a novel that was an inspiration for many later, distinguished writers, including Graham Greene. Set before the First World War, it tells the tale of two wealthy and sophisticated couples, one English, one American, as they travel, socialise, and take the waters in the spa towns of Europe. They are 'playing the game' in style. That game has begun to unravel, however. With compelling attention to the tragic (and comic) results, the American narrator - a model of the 'unreliable' kind - reveals his growing awareness of the sexual intrigues and emotional betrayals that lie behind its facade. The introduction (6000 words) and notes cover such issues as critical reception, biographical and historical context, and form and style, also explaining Ford's many references - to Conrad's writing, for example, and the Bible in particular
The numerical solution of fractional differential equations: Speed versus accuracy
This paper discusses the development of efficient algorithms for a certain fractional differential equation.Manchester Centre for Computational Mathematic
Unnormalized differences between zeros of L-functions
We study a subtle inequity in the distribution of unnormalized differences
between imaginary parts of zeros of the Riemann zeta function. We establish a
precise measure which explains the phenomenon, that the location of each
Riemann zero is encoded in the distribution of large Riemann zeros. We also
extend these results to zeros of more general L-functions. In particular, we
show how the rank of an elliptic curve over Q is encoded in the sequences of
zeros of other L-functions, not only the one associated to the curve.Comment: v3. Small corrections. Changed slightly one hypothesis in the
definition of the set H of test functions, regarding the decay of the Fourier
transform. To appear in Compositio Mat
Statement By The Honorable Gerald R. Ford Minority Leader of The House of Representatives Before The House Committee on the Judiciary
Prepared remarks of Gerald Ford to the House Committee on the Judiciary on the first day of the committeeâs hearings to consider Fordâs nomination to be 40th Vice President of the United. President Richard Nixon had nominated Ford pursuant to Section 2 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment following Vice President Spiro Agnewâs resignation.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/twentyfifth_amendment_watergate_era/1005/thumbnail.jp
Remarks of the President Upon Introduction of Governor Nelson Rockeller As Vice President-Designate and Press Conference of Governor Nelson Rockefeller Vice President-Designate
Press conference of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller after President Gerald Ford announced that he was nominating Rockefeller to be the 41st Vice President of the United States. President Ford nominated Rockefeller pursuant to Section 2 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment following Fordâs succession to the presidency upon President Richard Nixonâs resignation.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/twentyfifth_amendment_watergate_era/1007/thumbnail.jp
Ford of Europe, 1967-2003
The analysis of economic and financial results of Ford of Europe since the creation of this coordination structure in 1967 allows us to distinguish two periods. In a first time, until the end of the eighties, Ford took a strong advantage from the successful integration of its European activities. In a second time, since 1990, the automaker got some reversal of fortune on the old continent. Explanatory factors of that general evolution are searched in the history of the Ford of Europeâs governance, of its products strategies, and of its management of industrial resources from 1967 to 1993. We defend the idea that after the exhaustion of the favourable dynamic of its continental integration, Ford of Europe has been experiencing an identity crisis which was linked to a radical change of its operational context resulting from the globalisation strategies of Ford Motor Company.Ford, Automobile Industry, Europe, Multinational Firms, Regional Integration, Globalisation Strategies
Quantum inequalities in two dimensional Minkowski spacetime
We generalize some results of Ford and Roman constraining the possible
behaviors of renormalized expected stress-energy tensors of a free massless
scalar field in two dimensional Minkowski spacetime. Ford and Roman showed that
the energy density measured by an inertial observer, when averaged with respect
to that observers proper time by integrating against some weighting function,
is bounded below by a negative lower bound proportional to the reciprocal of
the square of the averaging timescale. However, the proof required a particular
choice for the weighting function. We extend the Ford-Roman result in two ways:
(i) We calculate the optimum (maximum possible) lower bound and characterize
the state which achieves this lower bound; the optimum lower bound differs by a
factor of three from the bound derived by Ford and Roman for their choice of
smearing function. (ii) We calculate the lower bound for arbitrary, smooth
positive weighting functions. We also derive similar lower bounds on the
spatial average of energy density at a fixed moment of time.Comment: 6 pages, no figures, uses revtex 3.1 macros, to appear in Phys Rev D.
Minor revisions and generalizations added 7/16/9
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