In 2000 Ford Motor restructured a factory in Cologne, Germany so that Ford paid the equipment supplier, Germany's Eisenmann, for each completed car that rolled out of the factory.

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He realized that the AAV could be used as factory inside the motor neurons to pump out large quantities of nourishing growth factors.

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Incidentally, Smith won his way onto the fast track at GM by working with Toyota Motor Co. to establish a joint factory in California, and also by running GM Europe.

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In August Toyota Motor suspended production until November at a spanking-new Tundra factory in Texas, but Toyota is confident pickup sales will rebound eventually.

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