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Symbol of Black History on the Auction Block: From the Detroit Stories

Lester Sloan | Posted 12.21.2009 | Impact

Read More: Social Security, Second Baptist Church, Captin Atwood, River Rouge, Detroit's Greektown, Canada, Statue of Liberty, Ford Motor Company, Wayne County, George De Baptiste, Impact News
Lester Sloan

Second Baptist Church served as a end-station of the Underground Railroad. The announcement of the pending foreclosure for back taxes was akin to putting an important symbol of Black History on the auction block.

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Cash for Clunkers

Gershon Hepner | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Cash for Clunkers, Marianne Moore, Edsel, Ford Motor Company, Danny Heitman, Business News
Gershon Hepner

It seems that we've done just about everything to get the American auto industry out of the doldrums. We've forced bankruptcies. We've exchanged cash for clunkers. But have we tried poetry?

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Dow Above 9,000 For First Time Since January

AP | Tim Paradis and Sara Lepro, AP Business Writers | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business

Read More: New Home Sales, Existing Home Sales, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Ford Motor Company, Dija, Business News

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Dow Jones industrials rose back above 9,000 for the first time since early January. Investors snapped up a broad range of stocks...

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Ford's Giant Green Leap

Andrea Chalupa | Posted 06.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Walletpop, Southern California Edison, Andrea-Chalupa, Who Killed the Electric Car, The Jetsons, Smart Grid, Ford, Susan Cischke, The Electric Car, WalletPop.Com, Neil Young, All in the Family, Ford Motor Company, Southern Cal Edison, 2012, Andrea Chalupa, Green News
Andrea Chalupa

Given the crisis we face, we should all be driving around in zero-emission vehicles. Forget the flying car and living like the Jetsons! We need cars that don't emit C02, now.

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Ford To Cut $10B In Debt With Cash, Equity Offer

AP | KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON and TOM KRISHER | Posted 04.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Automobiles, Ford Restructuring, Ford Debt, Ford Motor Company, Ford, Business News

DEARBORN, Mich. — Ford Motor Co. took another step Wednesday to stay cost-competitive with government-financed automakers General Motors and Chr...

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Ford Predicts 35 Percent Drop In Sales

Reuters | Kevin Krolicki | Posted 02.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Auto Industry, Car Sales, Ford Motor Company, Auto Sales, Ford, Business News

Ford Motor Co expects industry-wide December U.S. auto sales to drop by some 35 percent from a year earlier with no sign of a turnaround in the first ...

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Ha! Would You Buy A Car Designed By OUR Government?

Diane Tucker | Posted 01.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Automaker Bailout, Gasoline Prices, Wall Street Crisis, Big Three Automakers, Chrysler, General Motors, David Cole, Robert Nardelli, Alan Mulally, Rick Wagoner, Cars, Chris Dodd, Ford Motor Company, Diane Tucker, Financial Crisis, Business News
Diane Tucker

Thanks to CEO Alan Mulally, Ford made a profit in the first quarter of 2008. What's more, Mulally saw the credit crisis coming and fought to get a line of credit for Ford way back in 2006.

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Team of Rivals: JFK's Lessons for Commander-in-Chief Obama

Gordon Goldstein | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy, Pentagon, Schlesinger, Cia, Doris Kearns Goodwin, 1961, Asia, Castro, Barack Obama, Robert S. McNamara, Ground Combat Troops, Vietnam, Kennedy Cabinet, Abraham Lincoln, Dean Rusk, Hillary Clinton, Guatemala, Ford Motor Company, April 17, Secretary of State, Douglas MacArthur, Bay of Pigs, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News
Gordon Goldstein

The new commander-in-chief would be wise to examine JFK's first year: Appoint the strongest team possible, yet be prepared to reject your counselors' advice, even when vastly outnumbered.

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Ford To Drastically Shift Production Away From SUVs

New York Times | Bill Vlasic | Posted 07.29.2008 | Green

Read More: Gas Prices, Ford, Ford Cars, Ford Motor Company, Compact Cars, Suvs, Cars, Trucks, Green News

The Ford Motor Company, which devoted itself for nearly 20 years to putting millions of Americans into big pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles, i...

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Ford Is Pushing Buyout Offers To Its Workers

New York Times | BILL VLASIC | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Employee Buyout, Ford Motor Company, Ford, Ford Pushes Employee Buyouts, Business News

The Ford Motor Company is applying the hard sell these days -- piling on incentives, doling out marketing DVDs and brochures, and making offers it hop...

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