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...talking larceny. Robert Saroki, a Marathon gas-station owner in Wixom, Mich., keeps hearing stories of crazed drivers smashing the glass on other stations' pumps. Steve Glazer says customers at his Flushing, N.Y., Mobil station are so angry he is going to wear a helmet to work. Says Glazer, who has watched his profit margins erode to nothing: "I'd like to know who's making all the money...
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...rich kid from Grosse Pointe, Mich., and the working-class Lebanese kid from Melbourne, Australia, have laid out an interesting blueprint for change and done some things that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. They have broken ranks with other U.S. automakers. Last summer, for instance, Nasser announced that fuel mileage for all Ford trucks would be increased 25%, or 5 m.p.g., by 2005 (it is now about 20.5), well ahead of the government mandate that the other big companies are following. And they have gone to great lengths to promote a corporate culture that, as Nasser...
From the minute they took office, rumors of discord between Jac and Bill have swept the hallways of headquarters in Dearborn, Mich. There has been talk of shouting matches between the rich brat and the corporate master. Nasser and Ford hate that and vehemently deny they have ever had a real falling out. "This company has always loved to form camps around its top players," says Ford. "We're trying to avoid that...
...contrast, Ford is so devoted to his wife Lisa and their four kids that he's been dubbed Ford's No. 1 "soccer mom." Last year he moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., where he is building a modest (by billionaire standards) house to give his family a more normal existence than the legacy-ridden conclave of mansions in Grosse Pointe. His current vehicle of choice (he has a garageful, including a couple of juiced-up Mustangs): a chrome yellow Ford Escape, the company's new compact...