...Lincoln Gives Its Big SUV a Face-Lift Ford Plans to Formally Unveil the Restyled Navigator at the Chicago Auto Show By JOSEPH B. WHITE The face that launched a thousand supertankers is getting a makeover. Ford Motor Co. F -2.28% 's Lincoln brand is giving a new face and some new features to its venerable Lincoln Navigator, the model that jump-started the fad for supersize, fuel-thirsty luxury sport-utility vehicles when it first made its debut in the late 1990s. The restyled Lincoln Navigator from Ford. Ford Motor Co. General Motors Co. GM -2.65% 's rival Cadillac brand at first balked at following the Navigator, then countered with its own plus-size Escalade SUV, which later grew into a family of luxury versions of GM's largest SUV models. A four-wheel drive 1999 Navigator had an estimated fuel economy of 12 miles per gallon in city and highway driving. That later improved to 15 miles per gallon. The 2008 recession and a series of gasoline price spikes slashed sales of the Navigator and Escalade, and ultimately killed off GM's Hummer brand of big, high-price SUVs. But the Navigator and the Escalade survived and both are now getting makeovers. GM is planning to roll out a redesigned Escalade this spring. The revamped Navigator will be in showrooms this fall, Ford said in a statement. Ford sold just 8,613 Navigators last year, up 2.9% from a year earlier, but about a fifth of the model's peak sales in 1998. The refreshed Navigator will get a new grille, with horizontal...
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...INVESTIGATION: On 06-30-2016, I was notified at approximately 0021 hours, of a traffic crash fatality on Bearss Avenue east of Livingston Avenue. I responded to the crash scene and arrived at approximately 00103 hours. Upon my arrival at the scene, I met with, Corporal Morrill, Detective Parsons, who forensically mapped the scene and took digital photographs of the crash scene and Deputy Moraniec. Deputy Moraniec completed the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicle Traffic Crash Report (6560901). I conducted an interview of Anthony Walter Chavez, the driver of the Lincoln Navigator. During the interview, Chavez refused to submit to a blood draw. During the time we spoke, I noticed no indication of impairment with Chavez. I also conducted an interview with the passenger from the Lincoln...
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...MARKETING ASSIGNMENT Cadillac is a luxury vehicle brand owned by General Motors. Cadillac vehicles are sold in over 50 countries and territories, but mainly in North America. Cadillac is currently the oldest American automobile manufacturer and among the oldest automobile brands in the world. Founded in 1902 as the Cadillac Automobile Company, it was purchased in 1909 by General Motors and over the next 30 years established itself as America's premier luxury car. Cadillac pioneered many accessories in automobiles, including full electrical systems, the clashless manual transmission and the steel roof. The brand developed three engines, one of which (the V8 engine) set the standard for the American automotive industry. History Of Cadillac Cadillac was formed from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company when Henry Ford departed along with several of his key partners and the company was dissolved. With the intent of liquidating the firm's assets, Ford's financial backers, William Murphy and Lemuel Bowen called in engineer Henry M. Leland of Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing Company to appraise the plant and equipment prior to selling them. Instead, Leland persuaded them to continue the automobile business using Leland's proven single-cylinder engine. Henry Ford's departure required a new name, and on August 22, 1902, the company reformed as the Cadillac Automobile Company. Leland & Faulconer Manufacturing and the Cadillac Automobile Company merged in 1905. The Cadillac automobile...
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...Report on Race African Americans have had to endure many of things throughout history from navigator Pedro Alonso Niño traveling to the New World with Christopher Columbus, slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and finally the election of an African American president. With all of this in mind it is obvious that the African American race has come a long way from where they began. In 1492, navigator Pedro Alonso Niño traveled to the New World with Christopher Columbus, but not even 200 years later, a Dutch ship brought 20 African indentured servants to Jamestown, Virginia. In 1775, George Washington allows free “blacks” to enlist in the Continental Army and the British governor of Virginia promises freedom to the slaves who enlist with the British. In 1793 Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act; this made it a crime to harbor an escaped slave. Over a 30 year span, between 1831-1861, around 75,000 slaves escaped to the North claiming their freedom using the Underground Railroad. In 1857, the Dred Scott Case, took place and the Supreme Court decided that African Americans weren’t United States citizens and Congress couldn’t restrict slavery in federal territories; this meant that if a slave made it to a free state the person would still be considered a slave. The Civil War began in 1861 and after 4 years the Union’s victory meant the end of slavery in the United States. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation which legally freed all slaves in the...
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...became a definition of a black person which is part of racism. Different ethnic groups had they partake of racism and the learning about the fight of the Native Americans, African Americans and Jews; will give you a true definition of racism. Native Americans also known as Indians were named that because; Christopher Columbus didn’t even know where he was. He thought he was in India but actually he landed on one of the islands in the Caribbean which now is called the West Indies. They say Columbus discovered America, how can you discover something if people (the Native Americans) already lived there? Which brings me to the next question, why do they call Indians, Native Americans if they were here first? America was named after an Italian navigator, named Amerigo Vespucci which the Spaniards honored him. (Amerigo Vespucci. (2011). Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition, 1.) The Natives, (there correct name) were intrigued and curious about the white man. But little that they know, there were disliked because of their culture and lifestyle. For an example you think the Natives and the Pilgrims had a feast together that’s why we have Thanksgiving. Yes, they were all there but...
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...Evolution of Ford Company The Ford Motor Company (FMC) is an American multinational automaker based in Dearborn, Michigan. The automaker was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903 with $28,000, eleven men, and Henry Ford as Vice President and Chief Engineer of the company. This was only the beginning of what was to become a pioneering automaker whose prominence in innovations would transcend the auto making industry and transform Ford Motor into the leader it is today Initially, when Ford Motors first open its doors they were only producing three cars a day. In 1908 the company produced the famous Model T, a reliable and affordable vehicle for the mass market. Ford drove and raced this vehicle at every opportunity to prove how reliable it was. The success and the growing demand for the Model T was possibly the inspiration that led Ford to seek faster alternatives for mass production and in 1913 introduced the conveyor-belt assembly line. The incorporation of the conveyor-belt was possibly Ford’s greatest contribution to the automotive manufacturing industry. First implemented at the Highland Park, Michigan, the new technique allowed individual workers to stay in one place and perform the same task repeatedly on multiple vehicles that passed by them. This had a tremendous impact on production and Ford Company that went from doing 3 cars a day, to one every 93 minutes. By the end of that year they had perfected the techniques so well that production was about...
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...ANSWERS TO COMMA COMBINE PRACTICE Commas essential nonessential answers 1. Patterson Tower, the recently completed office building, is a monument to concrete ugliness. 2. The movie that I wanted to see is no longer playing. 3. Each person who enters the contest must send in two box tops. 4. John decided, nonetheless, not to buy the car. 5. The Mississippi River, which once flowed north into Hudson Bay, flows south into the Gulf of Mexico. 6. Your cat, watching the dog intently, walked carefully away. 7. The cat that was watching the dog most intently walked carefully away. 8. TV commercials, sometimes the most entertaining parts of a program, are essentially flashy corporate propaganda. 9. The dam project, which many in the government consider to be a sign of national strength, will destroy hundreds of villages and vast areas of wildlife habitat along the river banks. 10. The free-jazz musician Sun Ra claimed to be from Saturn. 11. The one woman who did not attend the meeting said that she had to study for her chemistry exam. [who did not attend the meeting is an essential clause, defining the specific woman in question.] 1 2. He did not however intend to return the money he borrowed. [however is a Non-Essentials word.] 1 3. West Point cadets, who break the honor code, are expelled. [who break the honor code is an essential clause, defining a subset of cadets.] 1 4. She was as a matter of fact chiefly interested in becoming a Hollywood celebrity. [as a matter of...
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...MARKETING PLAN -2012 UK’s Auto Market – Cadillac Escalade Hybrid Version KAYODE OMOSEBI: A4032655 MBA – 8A 18-08-2011 Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 CADILLAC: A BRIEF INSIGHT 2 MARKET SUMMARY 3 MARKET TREND IN THE PREMIUM AUTOMOBILE MARKET 4 CONSUMER MARKET 4 MARKETING RESEARCH 6 BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT 6 PESTEL Analysis 6 SWOT ANALYSIS 9 MISSION, DIRECTION AND OBJECTIVES 11 TARGETING AND POSITIONING DECISION 12 MARKETING MIX 12 PROMOTION / MARKETING COMMUNICATION 14 CUSTOMER SERVICE AND INTERNAL MARKETING 16 FORECASTS AND FINANCIAL DETAILS 16 IMPLEMENTATION AND CONTROL 17 REFERENCES…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….18 APPENDICES…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….19 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Cadillac Escalade Hybrid SUV is the new product of the Cadillac Company which is a sub-division of the General Motors group. General Motors group plans to market this premium and luxury product to UK auto market and, later, to other European auto market. However, luxury and premium auto-makers with well-respected brands can potentially earn higher profit margin by targeting a specific market segment. Our targets are four consumer segments at the high end of the affordable personal/family auto market, enhancing our positioning with luxury brand, hybrid version and advanced technologies. Our financial objective relates to first-year turnover in the UK market, a minimum level of sales per unit, achieving a break-even within three...
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...Running Head: BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Business Management Contents Answer: 1 3 Internet technologies and Robotics 3 Answer: 2 6 E-Business 6 Glam Media Inc 6 Competitive Threats for Glam Media, Inc 7 Threat of new e-commence Entrants 7 Threat of New Digital products 9 Threat of New Business Models 10 Sell-side Threats to Glam Media’s Business 11 Customer Power & Knowledge 11 Power of Intermediaries 11 Buy-side Threats to Glam Media’s Business 12 Power of Suppliers 12 Power of Intermediaries 12 Answer: 3 13 Crowdsourcing 13 References 19 Answer: 1 Internet technologies and Robotics In this technological and more competitive business scenario, internet technologies play a significant role in the organizations in order to accomplish their goals & objectives in an effectual manner. For instance, these are helpful to store & protect confidential information about the business in an effective manner. In addition, information technology improves the efficiency of company via develops an automated process to reduce the burden of the employees in a significant way (Sobh, Elleithy & Mahmood, 2008). But, in the next 10 years, internet technologies as well as Robotics will change the overall marketplace in an effectual manner. For example, these will have an effect on the job sector of a diverse market. With the help of internet technologies and robotics there would be incising in the jobs of different sectors such as: finance, service...
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...Université Nice Sophia Antipolis Institut d'Administration des Entreprises This paper is submitted in the context of the following subject: Portfolio Project Risk & Stock Market M2 EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE BANKING Submitted by: Instructor: KAKAVAND Samaneh EGRET Paul DOU Yan Academic Year 2012/2013 Introduction: Global Economic & stock market Performance: Mixed signals January 2013 is a great month for stock market. Since January, the stock market goes up, so maybe this stock market bulls will keep running in the whole year, especially, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is increasing dramatically, from 12520 in July 2012 to 14275 today. Source: Google Finance One potential reason for the optimism is a positive sense of global economy in the future; the euro zone is not going to break up, because in September 2012, European Central Bank promised unlimited bond-buying to keep the euro together; China has avoided a hard landing, America avoided falling off the fiscal cliff. Additionally, Federal Reserve agreed to keep interest rates down to help encourage investment and decrease the unemployment rate. Based on the above economic performances, we can argue that the share prices will go up, because the global economy is recovering from recession. Since the bonds yields will keep running low in 2013, investment in equity market is a more reasonable choice. However, market risk and uncertain...
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...ACCOUNT CLASSIFICATION AND PRESENTATION Account Title Accounts Payable Accounts Receivable Accumulated Depreciation—Buildings Accumulated Depreciation—Equipment Advertising Expense Allowance for Doubtful Accounts Amortization Expense Bad Debt Expense Bonds Payable Buildings Cash Common Stock Copyrights Cost of Goods Sold Debt Investments Depreciation Expense Discount on Bonds Payable Dividend Revenue Dividends Dividends Payable Equipment Freight-Out Gain on Disposal of Plant Assets Goodwill Income Summary Income Tax Expense Income Taxes Payable Insurance Expense Interest Expense Interest Payable Interest Receivable Interest Revenue Inventory Classification A Current Liability Current Asset Plant Asset—Contra Plant Asset—Contra Operating Expense Current Asset—Contra Operating Expense Financial Statement Balance Sheet Balance Sheet Balance Sheet Balance Sheet Income Statement Balance Sheet Income Statement Income Statement Balance Sheet Balance Sheet Normal Balance Credit Debit Credit Credit Debit Credit Debit Debit Credit Debit Debit Credit Debit Debit Debit Debit Debit Credit Debit Credit Debit Debit Credit Debit (1) Debit Credit Debit Debit Credit Debit Credit Debit B Operating Expense Long-Term Liability Plant Asset C Current Asset Stockholders' Equity Intangible Asset Cost of Goods Sold Balance Sheet Balance Sheet Balance Sheet Income Statement Balance Sheet Income Statement Balance Sheet Income Statement Retained Earnings Statement Balance Sheet Balance...
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...501 Word Analogy Questions 501 Word Analogy Questions ® N E W YO R K Copyright © 2002 LearningExpress, LLC. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by LearningExpress, LLC, New York. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data: 501 word analogy questions / LearningExpress.—1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 1-57685-422-1 1. English language—Synonyms and antonyms—Problems, exercises, etc. 2. Vocabulary—Problems, exercises, etc. I. LearningExpress (Organization) PE1591 .A24 2002 428.1'076—dc21 2002006843 Printed in the United States of America 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 First Edition ISBN 1-57685-422-1 For more information or to place an order, contact LearningExpress at: 55 Broadway 8th Floor New York, NY 10006 Or visit us at: www.learnatest.com The LearningExpress Skill Builder in Focus Writing Team is comprised of experts in test preparation, as well as educators and teachers who specialize in language arts and math. LearningExpress Skill Builder in Focus Writing Team Brigit Dermott Freelance Writer English Tutor, New York Cares New York, New York Sandy Gade Project Editor LearningExpress New York, New York Kerry McLean Project Editor Math Tutor Shirley, New York William Recco Middle School Math Teacher, Grade 8 Shoreham/Wading River School District Math Tutor St. James, New York Colleen Schultz Middle School Math Teacher, Grade 8 Vestal Central School District ...
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...HTML, DHTML & JavaScript HTML, DHTML & JavaScript PRAVESH – Student Guide Subject: HTML. DHTML & JavaScript V1.0 Training & Development Division Page 1 of 282 HTML, DHTML & JavaScript Chapter 1: Introduction to Web and Internet...................................................................................3 Chapter 2: HTML's Role on the Web...........................................................................................13 Chapter 3: Creating a Web Page and Entering Text ....................................................................24 Chapter 4: Changing and Customizing HTML Text....................................................................33 Chapter 5: Displaying Text in Lists .............................................................................................43 Chapter 6: Adding Graphics to Your Web Pages.........................................................................54 Chapter 7: Hypertext and Creating Links.....................................................................................64 Chapter 8: Clickable Image Maps and Graphical interfaces........................................................74 Chapter 9: HTML Forms..............................................................................................................85 Chapter 10: Images, Multimedia Objects and Background Graphics ..........................................96 Chapter 11: Adding Tables to your Documents.............................
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...LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION How to organize team creativity and harvest ideas JOHN ADAIR London and Philadelphia Publisher’s note Every possible effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this book is accurate at the time of going to press, and the publishers and author cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions, however caused. No responsibility for loss or damage occasioned to any person acting, or refraining from action, as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by the editor, the publisher or the author. First published in Great Britain in 1990 by the Talbot Adair Press as The Challenge of Innovation This edition published in Great Britain and the United States by Kogan Page Limited in 2007 as Leadership for Innovation Reprinted 2007 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms and licences issued by the CLA. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms should be sent to the publishers at the undermentioned addresses: 120 Pentonville Road London N1 9JN United Kingdom www.kogan-page.co.uk © John Adair, 1990, 2007 The right of John...
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...Ford Report on the BUSINESS IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE FORD REPORT ON THE BUSINESS IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE Table of Contents Foreword 1 Introduction Implications Actions Challenges Convergent Issues Commitment 2 2 3 3 3 Background The climate issue Business Drivers Market Share Regulatory compliance Shareholder value Industry Considerations 4 4 4 4 5 5 Strategic Roadmap Strategic principles Strategic actions Product Policy Plants People Partnerships 6 6 7 7 8 9 9 9 Conclusion 10 Appendix 1 Excerpt from 2004-2005 Sustainability Report 11-20 Appendix 2 California GHG regulations 21 Foreword In November 2004, Ford Motor Company received a shareholder resolution from the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) and the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (Ceres) and others requesting we release information specific to our greenhouse gas emissions strategy. Much of the information requested is reported annually in our Sustainability Report (formerly called the Corporate Citizenship Report), and we have excerpted the most recent Sustainability Report as an appendix to this report. However, we agreed to publish the industry's first report dedicated to the issue of climate change and its effect on our business as well as the automotive industry as a whole. While we have worked closely with ICCR, Ceres and other stakeholders throughout the writing of this report, the material contained here is is our view of this...
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