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...easy call. Popular opinion would suggest that Ford could pick up a lot of customers who either are worried about Toyota's problems or simply aren't able to get the vehicle they want because sales have been halted. Ford has been the subject of enormously favorable news coverage this year, ranging from vehicle awards to headlines celebrating its return to profitability - Ford is the only U.S. automaker to report an annual profit in the past several years. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...analysis by Edmunds.com, an online car-shopping service, reaches a similar conclusion. When looking at the most likely alternatives to Toyota's Camry, Corolla and RAV4 - the automaker's three most popular models - Edmunds comes up with six import competitors and just three domestic ones: two Chevies and a Ford. (See the most important cars of all time...
...have won the Oscar for Best Picture, and many others (My Left Foot, Awakenings, Shine, Erin Brockovich, The Pianist, Seabiscuit) have been nominated. It may be that members of the Motion Picture Academy, on the whole far older than the average movie audience, recall when the inspirational was so popular that it had a nickname: the four-hankie movie. Now the genre is nearly as hard to find as ... a hankie. (See the 100 best movies of all time...
...popular finance blog 24/7 Wall St. threw a couple stones at Fair Harvard last night, calling our endowment "by a wide margin the worst managed endowment." Ouch...
...wrong side of history. As members wandered in and out of Cantor's conference room on the third floor of the Capitol that Monday, a consensus began to form. "The lesson learned from the stimulus vote was our members felt comfortable in taking that political risk against a popular President if we had a credible alternative, and we did," Cantor says. Critics will surely debate just how credible those alternatives really were - their budget proposal, for instance, would have done away with Medicare. But the GOP came up with enough proposals of their own to give Republicans cover to vote...