Mr Burbage says that a programme as big as the F-35 is bound to attract barbs.

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Louis, since it had lost out on a big order for the F-15 fighter.

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Ford so far hasn't proven it has reduced its very high costs, and it has few product rollouts this year aside from its big truck, the F-150.

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Portugal's hopes of automatic qualification from Group F suffered a big blow as Cristiano Ronaldo's team needed late goals from Helder Postiga and Fabio Coentrao to draw 3-3 in Israel.

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It honors Thomas F. (Big Tom) Foley (1852-1925), a prominent alderman, saloonkeeper, and Tammany Hall sachem.

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Ford, for instance, has tied its wagon for the last few years to boosting fuel economy across its spectrum of products, ranging from the new subcompact Ford Fiesta to a line of gas-sipping EcoBoost engines that has even buyers of F-150 pickup trucks grasping for big gains in fuel economy.

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Some defence analysts took the article as a signal that the navy, never thrilled by the F-35, might intend to make a big cut in the 480 aircraft it is meant to be buying to free money for other things.

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That's how many times the F-bomb got dropped by The Dude during Engadget fav The Big Lebowski.

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This raises big questions for companies such as Boeing, which has recently booked a multibillion-dollar deal to sell dozens of F-15 fighters and attack helicopters to Saudi Arabia.

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The issue is more important to GM, whose workforce is much older than Ford 's (nyse: F - news - people ) or Chrysler's, even after last year's big wave of early retirements.

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