News :

• Ford's Russian plant back despite strike (UPI)
  Ford Motor Co. resumed production at a Russian factory despite a union workers' strike for 40 percent higher wages, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday.
  www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Business/2007/11/28/fords_russian_plant_back_despite_strike/3229/
  
  
• U.S. Stock-Index Futures Pare Losses; General Motors, Ford Gain (Bloomberg.com)
  Nov. 28 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock-index futures pared losses. General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co., the biggest U.S. automakers, paced the advance.
  www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aveOFnaQwUok
  
  
• Ford plant assembles 66 cars amid workers' strike - company (Interfax)
  ST. PETERSBURG. Nov 28 (Interfax) - A Russian plant belonging to Ford Motor Company that is currently the scene of a workers' strike assembled 66 cars on Wednesday, the first working day after a week of non-production, "with a quota of 100 or 101 items per shift," the company spokeswoman said.
  www.interfax.com/3/340717/news.aspx
  
  
• Ford Enhances Safety and Convenience in New Models Using Nuance Speech Technology (The Auto Channel)
  London, UK - November 28, 2007 - Nuance Communications, Inc. , a leading provider of speech and imaging solutions, today announced that Ford Motor Company integrates Nuance speech technologies to provide drivers with unrivaled levels of safety and convenience when using the car's phone, navigation and entertainment systems.
  www.theautochannel.com/F/news/2007/11/28/072033.html
  
  
• $60 million in tax breaks OK'd for Ford truck plant (Louisville Courier-Journal)
  State officials yesterday approved $60 million in tax incentives for Ford Motor Co. to invest $200 million in the Kentucky Truck Plant on Chamberlain Lane.
  www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071128/BUSINESS/711280799
  
  
• Routh, Ford wed (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
  It was a Thanksgiving weekend wedding for "Superman Returns" star Brandon Routh, 28, and actress Courtney Ford, 29, in Santa Barbara, Calif. Ford starred in the 2004 science fiction film "Outside," and her TV credits include "Ugly Betty" and "Moesha."
  news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071128/ENT/311280002
  
  
• President Ford's former pastor to help Department of Defense, returning troops (The Desert Sun)
  President Gerald R. Ford's former pastor, the Rev. Robert Certain who served at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in Palm Desert, has been nominated to the federal Defense Health Board.
  www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071128/LIFESTYLES06/71128011
  
  
• Ford Family grant makes county-wide parenting classes a reality (Siskiyou Daily News)
  Daily News Staff Writer YREKA ­ Families connected to Evergreen Elementary School in Yreka were able to attend seven weeks of free parenting classes put on by the Siskiyou Community Services Council (CSC), thanks in part to a grant received by the Ford Family Foundation.
  www.siskiyoudaily.com/articles/2007/11/28/news/news4.txt
  
  
• Christmas at Ford Rotunda in Dearborn (Detroit News)
  For generations of Detroiters, the only place to be at Christmastime was the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn.
  www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071128/LIFESTYLE/711280417
  
  
• Ford hearing on prison sentence (WREG-TV Memphis)
  Former state Senantor John Ford may find out how soon he'll have to pay for his part in operation Tennessee Waltz Wednesday.
  www.wreg.com/global/story.asp?s=7419655