He has won business from new customers, including big Ford and Chrysler suppliers.
Last week I got to cruise around downtown San Francisco in a big white Ford Super Duty truck powered mostly by fuel made from corn cobs.
The salesforce seems motivated too, signing contacts with some big players including Ford Motor Company and Bay Networks.
Ford is similarly dropping big money on the hood of its 2011 Ford Flex seven-passenger crossover to help accommodate families on a budget.
The Big Three -- Ford, GM and Chrysler -- all saw sale increases for December, and the year as a whole.
But overconfidence is what got Ford into big problems last time around.
In December, we saw auto sales climb for the seventh consecutive month, and the Big Three -- Ford, GM and Chrysler -- all saw sale increases for December and the year as a whole.
Murphy also recently established a big position in the Eagle Ford shale region of Texas.
On the liquids front, Chesapeake still has big chunks of the Eagle Ford, Bakken, Utica and Marcellus shales.
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There have been other big deals in the Eagle Ford recently.
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America's Big Three automakers -- Ford, General Motors and Chrysler -- have let go of thousands of their workers over the years, but Toyota has a widely admired policy against layoffs.
Congress has just decided to send the titans of the auto industry back home with empty hands and a big homework assignment - come up with a business plan to get the big three, Chrysler, Ford, and GM, back in the black.
Valdiserri has also had big problems relining two of Henry Ford's original blast furnaces.
It wasn't quite as big or powerful as trucks from Ford, Chevy and Dodge.
But even if it stays put in the stock market, Ford may have some big deals in store.
Officials from the Alliance of Automobile Manufactures, the industry group that represents the "Big Three" automakers--Ford Motor, General Motors and Chrysler--were not immediately available for comment Friday.
America's two biggest carmakers lost speed, as General Motors reported a 17% drop in car sales in the year to November, and Ford also posted a big fall.
But the Navy has many other options for generating savings in its budget, and the Ford class is a big improvement over carriers designed before the information revolution began.
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Second, in a badly needed effort to appeal to younger buyers Ford is taking a big risk in hiring comedian Jimmy Fallon to help create the ad (but not appear in it).
The only of the Big Three to avert bankruptcy, Ford is on track to gain market share for the second year in a row, which hasn't occurred since 1993, according to the report.
The talks are tacit recognition that the incoming administration believes that whatever Congress does is likely to be a stopgap to keep one or more of the Big Three -- Chrysler, Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp.
For example: Key to the Ford hybrid's system big numbers is its all-electric speed range of up to 62 mph.
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That's the familiar story of General Motors, Ford and lots of other big manufacturers over the last 20 or 30 years.
Last week, the heads of the Big Three--General Motors, Ford Motor and DaimlerChrysler--pushed back, claiming that achieving those increases in corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) is too costly.
General Motors, Ford and Chrysler are facing big pension expenses and renegotiation of their labor contracts with the United Auto Workers (see " The Union Is Strong, The Automakers Are Weak").
At the big press conference in San Francisco, Ford president and chief executive Jac Nasser waxed lyrical about the impact of Ford taking a minority stake in CarPoint, Microsoft's car-buying site.
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