David Healy
David Healy
David Jonathan Healy, MBEis a Northern Irish former footballer and now football manager who is in charge at NIFL Premiership club Linfield...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth5 August 1979
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I think that the sales drop is temporary, ... Explorer buyers, or some of the buyers, may be buying Ford's new small Escape SUVs or waiting until the new Explorer itself comes out after the first of the year.
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I think they're pretty smart to take the earnings hit now,
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Ford would welcome the cash for liquidity purposes, to help provide for large unfunded pension liabilities and for research and development.
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Ford is in the intolerable position of having too many plants and too many people, ... Cost cutting needs to come before the end of the year -- layoffs, plant closings, that sort of ugly stuff.
company darn maybe
It's not bet-the-company, but it's pretty darn important. Well, maybe it is bet-the-company.
less moderate operation plus
It's a moderate plus to their finances. Hertz has become kind of a noncore operation for them, a much less important outlet.
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It's a major step forward but it's certainly no where near all what they have to accomplish to turn North America around.
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I'm not sure how significant that is because these warped market shares were caused by the strike that is now over.
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It's more trouble for the suppliers. Partly, it's a reflection of the fact that Ford and GM are shrinking to reckon with lower market share. And so there's less business to go around for the suppliers.
friends-or-friendship
It's strange. I don't even know about friends, what they think about me, ... You don't really know who you can trust.
definitely profitable
It's still a very profitable segment. That's why everyone is getting into it. But you will definitely see more incentives.
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The 1982 team is legendary in Northern Ireland but this match against England is our chance to record a victory of that magnitude,
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My thought is that this will not be a major stock market or earnings event. As recalls go, it's a lot of vehicles, but companies always make a provision for this sort of thing.
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They were pretty much as expected in North America. Where they made gains was in better operating margins in Europe. Given that the market-share numbers in Europe are available and pretty unimpressive, it must be on the cost side.