Louis Business Analyst, Julie Neiman(ph), says, given that fact there is no way Ford can keep the Hazelwood factory open.
The trouble is that no one at Ford seems to understand the automobile business.
Ford officials say no one wants to see the automaker turn around more than Bill Ford, who is the first family member to run the company since his uncle, Henry Ford II, retired in 1979.
Ford stopped creating Mercury versions of its Fords: There are no Mercury versions of the Ford Flex and Edge SUVs.
When she gave birth, she found that Ford had no policy concerning maternity leave.
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And, as few know better than Gucci's Tom Ford, no advertising campaign can run forever.
The doctors at Henry Ford found no evidence of such a problem or any other serious medical malady.
But given the volumes now, Ford can no longer be treated as a small fish in a big pond.
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Chief Executive Scott Ford said no changes were planned in staffing and the company's headquarters would remain in Little Rock.
Ford has no contractual or other responsibility towards the Visteon UK workforce.
Even though Ford had no patience to undergo a battery of tests, it was surprising that doctors did not administer a CAT scan or other tests.
Ford would no doubt counter that drivers can always use the voice-command menu, but I find that system to be demanding, rigid, dense and a little hostile.
But doing away with the need for horses did much more than mean it was good to be Henry Ford and no longer so good to be a horse breeder.
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That's why Ford has no incentives on its hot-selling, heavy-duty pickup trucks, and why incentives on its popular Expedition and Escape suvs are much lower than the deals GM is offering on competing models.
Ford is the No. 1 brand in Philadelphia with 14 percent of the registrations.
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And sources say there are no new Mercury products in Ford's pipeline after 2009, suggesting that brand's days are numbered.
Randy Sharp is the director of special projects for the American Family Association, which is no longer going to boycott Ford.
After enduring a much-publicised recall of 6.5 million Firestone tyres, which are thought to be linked to crashes of Ford Explorer models, Ford is taking no chances in losing market share in promoting its vehicles as both safe and tough.
Indeed, at least three fires have been reported from the problem, Ford said, though no injuries.
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In January, the Ford Figo was ranked No. 11 in terms of overall sales, with 7, 508 units sold last month.
With demand for their product sliding, Ford and GM could no longer afford so many workers with such rich benefits.
And looking forward to selling them a Ford after graduation, no doubt.
Price sensitivity has existed for millennia, but in just two decades the Internet has fundamentally changed the notion of scarcity in ways no one from Nero to Henry Ford could have imagined.
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When Seattle resident Elisa Davidson(ph) first bought her 2000 Ford Taurus, she had no idea it was a so-called flex-fuel car.
Even full-size pickup trucks are showing significant gains in fuel economy these days with no sacrifice in utility, with the Ford F150 leading the way with its Ecoboost turbocharged V6 engine.
Ford has said there is no video and has called the allegations ridiculous, but he has refused to take questions from the media and still has not said whether he has ever used crack.
These days, rather than turning out truly horrendous designs the type that come into being as a calculated risk that went horribly wrong, which is a luxury of finance and scheduling most automakers no longer possess companies like Ford, General Motors, Toyota and Volkswagen simply produce cars of the ho-hum variety.
When she was promoted to production manager at Ford, she discovered there was no restroom for women near the management dining room.
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