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...public's opinion toward foreign investment in the U.S. Mike Van Winkle Oak Park, Illinois, U.S. Ford Focused In this age of globalization, in which free trade gives the consumer the option to buy the best value in the world marketplace, consumers should give extra points to Ford Motor Co. when purchasing a car [Feb. 6]. Here's an American company that created the middle class in the U.S. and built tanks and planes that helped us win World War II. Ford should be given every purchase consideration for its vehicles. After reading your article, I feel like waving...
...year ago, a Rutgers classmate who is a well-connected NASCAR aficionado brought him to his first big race. On a lark, Batali and his friend had decided to throw a dinner for the drivers. "We handed out little cards with an invitation to all the drivers' motor homes," says Batali. "And they came. It wasn't like we checked with NASCAR." But when it came time to put together a partnership deal, it didn't hurt that Batali already knew Brian France, NASCAR's CEO. A couple of years earlier, France had paid Batali to cook his wife...
...least three times. By his account, his unlawful entries into the U.S. began in 1986 at the age of 17. Under the name Victor Manuel Batres-Martinez, which may have been his legal name, he found his way to Oregon, where he was arrested for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. His sentence to a juvenile facility was suspended, with the understanding that the INS would deport him. The agency did so and in May 1987 granted him a voluntary return to Mexico, with a notation on government records that "subject has many good productive years ahead...
...Exchange, a voluntary but legally binding bourse whose members, according to founder Richard Sandor, account for 8% of the greenhouse emissions from stationary sources in the U.S. "If we were a country," he says, "we'd be roughly the size of Britain." Members of the Chicago exchange, including Ford Motor Co. and DuPont, have pledged to cut their emissions 4% by the end of this year from the levels they averaged from 1998 to 2000. They have already taken tens of millions of tons of greenhouse gases out of play, which sounds impressive until it's compared with...
...Shanhgai Auto Corporation Inc., one of GM's principal partners in China, which GM's senior executives are counting on for the growth needed to stay ahead of Japan's Toyota Motor Corp, had its credit rating downgraded by a Hong Kong-based rating service. Key issues in the downgrade were concerns about over capacity in the midsized segment in China where ShanghaiGM has targeted investment, as well as the lack of fuel-efficient vehicles that both Chinese consumers and the Chinese government are demanding for the future, the report notes...