Re: [pf] Ford Motors being "green"?

At 21:54 6/01/00 -0800, jrrr (Jim R.) sent:
>Financial Times 01/06/00:
>
>                    US: Companies begin to think green
>                    By Nancy Dunne in Washington
>
>When Ford Motor Company last month withdrew from a club of companies that
>calls itself the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) and  word reached the US
>that DaimlerChrysler was about to do the same, environmental groups
>cheered.
>For the GCC - a favourite target of such groups - promotes doubt about
>global warming and opposes government action to curb carbon emissions.
>
>Ford had sent "a signal that corporate America is finally recognising 
>the reality of the threat of global warming", said John Passacantando of
>Ozone Action, a Washington-based green group. 


**  I'm pleased to get this.

**  However, in relaying it to a co-leader of The Greens here in NZ, I
wanted to give her the reference (URL) so she or her researcher could check
for themself. 

**  I usually do this, but this time I had a problem. Usually one can
search for the reporter's name in something variously called: Archive,
Library, Earlier Stories, etc. The Financial Times calls it: Search Site.

**  This gave me 13 items, the third of which was the "Ford - green" one,
but the link was huge:
http://www.ft.com/search97cgi/vtopic?action=View&VdkVgwKey=%2Fapache%2Fdocs%
2Fhippocampus%2Fq3186c6%2Ehtm&DocOffset=3&DocsFound=13&QueryZip=%22Nancy+Dun
ne%22&Collection=Coll2&Collection=Coll4&Collection=Coll6&Collection=Coll7&Co
llection=Coll3&Collection=Coll8&SortOrder=Desc&SearchUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2E
ft%2Ecom%2Fsearch97cgi%2Fvtopic%3Faction%3DSearch%26QueryZip%3D%2522Nancy%2B
Dunne%2522%26Filter%3Dftfilter%252Ehts%26ResultTemplate%3Dj99reslist%252Ehts
%26QueryText%3D%2522Nancy%2BDunne%2522%26Collection%3DColl2%26Collection%3DC
oll4%26Collection%3DColl6%26Collection%3DColl7%26Collection%3DColl3%26Collec
tion%3DColl8%26SortOrder%3DDesc%26ResultStart%3D1%26ResultCount%3D10&

**  It turns out that only the first bit was of any real value; maybe the
rest is padding, I don't know. I also like to put in the original URL
because, while I am not willing to pay a newspaper company actual money for
their already-published articles, I accept that they have copyright, which
to me means they have a right to benefit in some reasonable way from
publishing their article. I choose to look at their webpage, with all the
headers and side-bars (images turned off in my case, though), as my
"payment" corresponding to their copyright.

**  To get that Financial Times article, all you need is:
http://www.ft.com/search97cgi/vtopic?action=View&VdkVgwKey=%2Fapache%2Fdocs%
2Fhippocampus%2Fq3186c6%2Ehtm&DocOffset=3&DocsFound=13&QueryZip=%22Nancy+Dun
ne%22
   [all on the same line in your browser window]

David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/3142/Pg1-AD11.html
 or better: http://www.emucities.com.au/member/davd/
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