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...A float of Volvo Cars will provide a large return to owners Geely, which bought the ailing company for $1.8bn from Ford in 2010....
...Alec Russell is editor of FT Weekend Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...This year it was the turn of Ron Chernow, Francis Ford Coppola, Jessye Norman, Claudia Rankine and Elizabeth Strout....
...Born in 1938, of noble lineage, Annan was educated at boarding school, and left Ghana in 1961 on a Ford Foundation grant as the excitement over independence was abating....
...Born in 1938 of aristocratic stock, and educated at a boarding school, he left in 1961 on a Ford Foundation grant to finish his studies in St Paul, Minnesota....
...Alec Russell Editor of FT Weekend For those like me searching for literary balm in this long hot summer of discontent I have a dual answer — in fiction and memoir....
...Over the past five years, many large companies, including Coca-Cola, Ford and BP, have withdrawn their membership from Alec after the organisation came under heavy criticism for helping to draft controversial...
...(Ford, which said on Friday it remains on course to move its small car production to Mexico, might want to get an unlisted number)....
...Most sales are in the $800,000 to $1.2m range, says Redfin senior agent Alec Traub. Buildings with a rooftop pool and underground parking are particularly popular....
...A similar oversimplification led to the disastrous Ford Pinto project in the 1960s. Ford boss Lee Iacocca challenged his team to produce a car weighing under 2,000lb and costing less than $2,000....
...But in the vein of what was good about Henry Ford, he had a concept and then carried out his plan....
...Between Them: Remembering My Parents, by Richard Ford, Bloomsbury, RRP£12.99/Ecco, RRP$25.99 A memoir by the author of The Sportswriter....
.../ From Alec Nacamuli Driverless cars will only add to traffic pollution / From Dr Robin Russell-Jones Less benign reactions to driverless cars / From Dr Miles Upton Essential features for the driverless...
...The Anglo-Saxon town of “Stone-ford” lies at a crossing of the river Welland....
...It is wonderful too to have Harrison Ford bringing Homeric heft, and humour, to the older Han Solo....
...Ford, meanwhile, posted September sales up 23 per cent as its new aluminium-bodied F-Series truck began to gain traction....
...Alec Gutierrez, an analyst for Kelley Blue Book, the car information site, said GM’s figures illustrated how the company was overcoming continued bad publicity over its botched recall of 2.6m older compact...
...Today Jack Ryan, Tom Clancy’s CIA hero, who later became Harrison Ford with a brief outing as Alec Baldwin....
...Alec Ng, Taiwan analyst at Cerulli Associates, a fund management research company, said: “The total number of staff at the four funds is low and has been low for many years in comparison with other pension...
...GM’s shares fell 3.45 per cent to $37.76, while Ford’s were down 3 per cent at $16.54....
...Alec Gutierrez, senior market analyst at car information service Kelley Blue Book, said it would take at least “two to three years” before sales recovered to the 17m annual level....
...Alec Gutierrez, another Kelley Blue Book analyst, said the lack of inventory for some key vehicles had hurt Ford....
...He is best known for his hero Jack Ryan, whose exploits have been the subject of four film adaptations starring Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck....
...“Consumer confidence continues to be a strong factor, along with pent-up demand and for now, low interest rates, bringing shoppers into the showroom to purchase a new vehicle,” said Alec Gutierrez, analyst...
...“The growth in the [car] marketplace is still being driven by demand for full-sized pickup trucks,” said Alec Gutierrez, senior analyst at Kelley Blue Book....
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