Topic - Ford Motor Company

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  Car dealers see sunshine in their busier showrooms

  Their ranks have thinned over the past three years, but a renewed sense of optimism has appeared in the showrooms of the nation's battered car dealers.

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  A state official says Exxon Mobil has agreed to $1.6 million in penalties to settle water-pollution violations from a major oil pipeline break that fouled dozens of miles of shoreline along Montana's scenic Yellowstone River.

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  The final weeks of 2011 were the economy's strongest since it appeared to be slipping toward recession in late spring.

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  Lincoln MKS is dignified and strong

  Better handling, increased power, improved fuel efficiency, additional standard equipment, more refinement and new technologies that help drivers reduce accident risks provide luxury customers with important new reasons to consider Lincoln and its flagship sedan, the new MKS.

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  Stocks flat after day of big gains

  Stocks barely budged, letting investors hold on to their gains from a strong opening to the year a day earlier.

• Toyota unveils high-tech concept car ahead of show

  Toyota's president unveiled a futuristic concept car resembling a giant smartphone to demonstrate how Japan's top automaker is trying to take the lead in technology at the upcoming Tokyo auto show.

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  Oil company BP has agreed to pay Texas $50 million for air pollution violations at a Gulf Coast refinery where a 2005 explosion killed 15 workers, the state's attorney general announced Thursday.

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  1953 Ford is intertwined in lives of Vienna couple

  Ford Motor Co. couldn't write a better script than this for a screen play about the golden anniversary of the company.

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  RAHN: William Niskanen, wise and principled

  If only we had followed his recommendations, the United States and the rest of the world would not be in the present mess. On Oct. 26, the world lost one of its wisest, most competent and principled economists, William Niskanen. Bill did his undergraduate work at Harvard and earned a doctorate from the University of Chicago, where he studied under Milton Friedman. He then taught at a couple of leading universities, was a high-level official at the Office of Management and Budget and the Defense Department, served as chief economist of the Ford Motor Co., was a member and, ultimately, head of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers and finally, served for more than two decades as the chairman of the Cato Institute.

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  Workers OK deals with Chrysler, Ford

  Workers at Chrysler's largest United Auto Workers local have voted in favor of a new four-year contract, a sign that the deal will be approved when voting ends next week.

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  Obama, S. Korea's Lee to pitch trade deal in U.S.

  President Barack Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak are promoting a new trade deal by visiting an auto plant in Michigan, a state battered by Asian car imports, in a rare joint appearance outside of Washington by a U.S. president and a visiting head of state.

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  Chrysler Group LLC and union negotiators agreed Wednesday on a new four-year contract that creates 2,100 new jobs. The company will also invest $4.5 billion in its plants under the deal, which covers 26,000 U.S. workers.

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  Costco Wholesale Corp. is raising its membership fees 10 percent as the wholesale club operator tries to keep its prices on products low to keep drawing value-focused shoppers.

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  Ford to add 5,750 US jobs as part of new contract

  Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it will add 5,750 jobs and invest $4.8 billion in its U.S. factories as part of a new contract deal with the United Auto Workers union.

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  Gold fell Tuesday as traders begin to doubt that prices can stay near the high they reached this summer.

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