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...cattle this fall but now will probably have to sell them to processors for far less than planned. There is not much feedlots can do to cut their costs; it takes a long time--120 to 200 days--to plump a cow for slaughter. "It's not like Ford, where you tell the workers to go home for a couple of days," says Robb. "You can't turn off cows." When the crisis erupted just before Christmas, cattle in Amarillo, Texas, were trading at $91 per 100 lbs. Three days later, the price had slipped to $75--a drop...
...news out of Detroit this year: cars are cool again. As Ford Motor Co. puts it, this is "the year of the car." The Big Three's discovery of the automobile might seem odd at this point, but over the past 10 years, Detroit has focused much of its energy and money on SUVs and trucks, which command high prices and high profits and see less competition from imports. Carmaking has been a loser for Detroit lately, but with the foreigners now muscling into the SUV and truck markets while holding on to their car sales, the Americans have...
...Just about everyone working in the field of Celtic studies—and especially in Irish studies—was either a student of his or was greatly influenced by his work,” said Robinson Professor of Celtic Languages and Literatures Patrick K. Ford...
...Ford, who studied under Kelleher and now chairs the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures, said Kelleher’s loss would be felt across the globe...
...wonderful colleague, a great scholar, and has left students all over this country and all over the world as well,” Ford said...