Ford also looks in better shape than the other two with a well-advanced strategy for cutting costs and bringing its highly-rated European products to North America.

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Ford also looks in better shape than the other two, with a well-advanced strategy for cutting costs and bringing its highly rated European models to North America.

ECONOMIST: America's carmakers

So cutting spending may not bring much reward from the markets in the shape of lower interest rates.

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This procedure involves cutting the front portion of the first metatarsal in a V-shape, moving the bone and holding the sections together with a fixation device, such as screws.

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He spends about a month creating a single orb, which involves cutting and layering sheets of glass with graduating and diminishing circumferences, then honing the shape with a chisel.

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There were no laws to prevent companies from cutting their rank and file employees out of their equity, but the freedom to shape a company according to the principles of shared sacrifice and shared reward was more profound.

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The shape of the stone, likely dating back to the later 16th century, is a product of "diamond-cutting in its infancy, " he says.

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The government is trying to fix the economy not just by cutting the deficit, and eventually debt, but also by trying to get the economy into the right shape so it can compete internationally.

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