General Motors, Ford \ 's great rival, considered a similar scheme but found that most employees willing to use PCs already had them.

福特公司的主要竞争对手通用汽车公司已考虑实施相似的计划，但发现多数愿意使用个人电脑的员工已经有了电脑。

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Fresh from a year analysts expect will be Ford Motor Co. 's most profitable ever, the automaker plans to hire about 7, 000 people, in part to rev up production of its new C-Max minivan.

新年伊始，分析师就预计，2011年将是福特汽车公司(Ford Motor Co .)有史以来获利最丰的一年。今年，这家汽车厂商计划招聘近7,000人，其中部分人手将用于生产新型C - Max小货车。

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However, the decision to forgo the fresh start of bankruptcy means that Ford ’s debt will rise to around $35 billion after payments are made to a retired workers’ health-care fund.

然而，放弃破产之后从头来过的机会对Ford来说意味着在支付退休工人医疗基金的费用之后Ford的负债额将上升到大约350亿美元左右。

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Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed at Ford's Theatre while watching a play with his wife in eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

A Confederate sympathizer shot the president at Ford's Theatre in Washington on April fourteenth, eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

On April fourteenth,eighty sixty-five, a Southern supporter shot President Lincoln in Ford's Theater in Washington.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

The EPA does not, and cannot, verify mileage numbers for the majority of light-duty vehicles (though I imagine there's a Ford C-Max Hybrid on the dynamometers in Michigan right now).

WSJ: 2013 Ford C-Max Hybrid Review: A Fine Car Falls Way Short on MPG | Rumble Seat by Dan Neil

He's a Ford guy too.

NPR: How Do Ford's Woes Play at the Auto Show?

Mulally's got it half right: It's a crime that Ford allowed what was once America's best-selling car to wither on the vine.

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