Among the North American manufacturing facilities Ford plans to close is the Hazelwood Assembly plant near St.

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In 1999 Ford dipped a toe in the water with a small assembly plant near St Petersburg, and in the same year GM went for a seemingly risky joint venture with AvtoVAZ (at the time a byword for corruption and gangsterism) to produce an improved version of the Niva, a cheap SUV.

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Earlier this month Preseli Pembrokeshire MP Mr Crabb also questioned a call by the Tory assembly group to make St David's Day a public holiday in Wales - a long standing Welsh Conservative policy.

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The Welsh Assembly Government has sought to make St David's Day a public holiday, but the UK Government has rejected the proposal saying it would cost businesses too much.

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Rickover was addressing a roomful of medical doctors at the Annual Scientific Assembly of the Minnesota State Medical Association in St.

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So for example the Assembly government isn't able to create a bank holiday on St David's Day or legalise fox-hunting, even if it wanted to.

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Swansea also offered another debut - last year's cancellation meant this was the first full Welsh conference Andrew RT Davies had spoken to since assuming leadership of the Tory group in the National Assembly for Wales. (He did speak to a rally in St Asaph that filled the gap before last year's local elections).

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Ericsson will take on the design, development and sales of the LTE multimode thin modem products, including 2G, 3G and 4G multimode, while ST will take on the existing ST-Ericsson products, other than LTE multimode thin modems, and related business as well as certain assembly and test facilities.

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