Word: forde
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...that spells trouble for the likes of BMW, Mercedes Benz, Porsche, Volkswagen, Ford Europe and General Motors' Europe arm, Opel. Ferdinand Dudenhoffer, a respected industry analyst, predicts that the number of new German cars delivered to customers in 2008 will fall by at least 100,000 units to around 3.1 million, and will likely slip below three million next year. As a result, he says, German car companies will have to cut up to 20,000 jobs over the coming year...
...says that its plant in Leipzig will close for a week later this month and its Regensburg plant will shut from Nov 3 to 7, during the Bavarian Fall holidays. Union officials say the company's main plant in Munich may also shut for a few days. Ford plans to cut production at its Saarlouis plant in southwestern Germany and says it is also laying off 204 part-time workers. Mercedes parent Daimler announced earlier this year that because of slower demand it would slow production through 2008 and send workers home for Christmas on December 17, days earlier than...
...Cornell has proved itself no small foe, however, in beating preseason favorite Yale at home 17-14 two weeks ago, and Lehigh 25-24 last week, a game in which senior quarterback Nathan Ford passed for 438 yards and two touchdowns. Ford completed 39 of 63 attempts and led the Big Red on a fourth quarter game-winning drive, finding senior wideout Jesse Baker in the end zone as time expired...
...Harvard’s game plan then hinges on forcing quarterback Ford, who currently sits third on the Cornell career charts for passing yards, to step up, but his ambitions will by no means go unopposed by the Crimson defense...
...will be familiar with is his namesake, the Ken Burns Effect. In this technique, the camera slowly zooms or pans across a still image, carrying the viewer’s focus along with it. Burns, who originally wanted to be a feature film director in the style of John Ford, was exposed to the potential of the still image by his photography professors at Hampshire College. “I decided to explore with an energetic camera’s eye the entity of that photography,” Burns said. He’s been at it ever since...