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		<title><![CDATA[Ford chairman praises Obama for handling of auto industry]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/auto/news-analysis/ford-chairman-praises-obama-handling/23721/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington -- Ford Motor Co.'s executive chairman met with President Barack Obama today, telling him he was right to save the company's two domestic competitors. Bill Ford Jr. told reporters today in Washington that he met briefly with Obama in the Oval Office. Ford reiterated that the company supported the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:33:53 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[November Ford sales jump 19.8% in Europe]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/auto/news-analysis/november-ford-sales-jump-198/23662/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Ford Motor Co.'s auto sales leapt 19.8 percent last month in its 19 key European markets -- the company's sixth consecutive monthly increase in the region. "November was another month with outstanding volume gains for Ford of Europe", said Roelant de Waard, Ford of Europe's vice president for sales. "Having...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:59:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[China's influence on automakers is growing]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SHANGHAI - China has overtaken the U.S. as the world's biggest market for automobiles, the first time any other country has bought more vehicles than the nation that produced Henry Ford, the Cadillac and the minivan. Now that the Chinese buy more cars and trucks than Americans, the shift could...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:04:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Drumbeat: December 13, 2009]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/energy/news-analysis/drumbeat-december-13-2009/23601/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[   Mexico's drug cartels siphon liquid gold :  Bold theft of $1 billion in oil, resold in U.S., has dealt a major blow to the treasury   MALTRATA, MEXICO -- Drug traffickers employing high-tech drills, miles of rubber hose and a fleet of stolen tanker trucks...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:04:37 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[King poised to take helm of UAW]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob King, likely the next president of the UAW, ascends with strong relationships with many management figures, especially at Ford Motor Co., and the experience of navigating the shrinking union through the most turbulent period since its founding in 1935. "He has the best education and the greatest respect of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:12:26 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Equity firm to buy supplier Dura Automotive]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Automotive supplier Dura Automotive Systems of Rochester Hills has entered into an agreement with Patriarch Partners LLC that would make the New York equity firm the majority shareholder. Patriarch plans to invest up to $125 million and take a controlling stake in Dura. The influx of capital will allow Dura...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:18:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A fork in the road]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/auto/news-analysis/fork-road/23425/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When the time comes to write the history of how the global car industry survived its worst year in recent memory - and recovered in the years that followed - a few days in February 2009 will stand out. Automotive employees in the developed world had just returned to work...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:24:45 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Social Media Marketing List: 45 things you should be doing but probably aren't]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://industry.bnet.com/advertising/news-analysis/social-media-marketing-list-45/23277/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[     When discussing social media marketing, lots of folks, including me, say things like 'be authentic' and wave our hands around. That makes you want to kick me in the coccyx, I'm sure. So, here's a list of 45 specific things you should be doing. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:36:50 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tapping into three decades of experience in India]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ When Volkswagen launched its Beetle and Touareg sports utility vehicle into the Indian market this month, it left nothing to chance, writes Joe Leahy in Mumbai .Last month, VW staged what Indian media called an advertising "roadblock" - buying out most of the advertising space in the main newspapers.It...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Subaru Passes 200,000 in U.S.; Next Up 300,000]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you're on a roll, you're on a roll, and Subaru is certainly on a roll in the United States these days, including a virtually certain U.S. sales record for Subaru in 2009, while other brands struggle.    Through November, Subaru's U.S. sales were 193,578 in 2009, up...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:55:15 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Reactions to E.P.A.'s Climate Finding]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency declared Monday that greenhouse gases, 23 percent of which come from car and truck tailpipes, "threaten the public health and welfare of the American people." The so-called endangerment finding was not unexpected and allows the E.P.A. to complete its standards for greenhouse-gas emissions and fuel economy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:13:35 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[UBS: Meredith's Lacy: Print Is Not Dead?But It's Not Quite Healthy Yet Either]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Forecasters at today&#8217;s opening session at the UBS Media Week conference said that the magazine category would be down about 4.5 percent this year. Most magazine heads speaking at industry conferences often have to put a brave face on such data and that&#8217;s what Stephen Lacy, president of president...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:17:36 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[In WSJ Op-Ed, Rupe Offers His Two Cents On Free News]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ You could almost hear Rupert Murdoch choking on his Corn Flakes last week, when reading - in his own paper, the WSJ - Eric Schmidt&#8217;s defensive op-ed that &#8220;frustrated newspaper executives are looking for someone to blame&#8221; for their travails.So Rupe has done what comes pretty easily; he&#8217;s penned...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:27:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Auto industry turns to Europe for direction]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The annual event underscored what one industry executive described as "the right-sizing" of the American market, as U.S. motorists begin to switch from big, gas-guzzling trucks to smaller, more fuel-stingy passenger cars and crossover vehicles. For Ford and its U.S. rivals General Motors and Chrysler, that increasingly means making more...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:48:13 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Drumbeat: December 8, 2009]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[   Dark Side of a Natural Gas Boom    DIMOCK, Pa. — Victoria Switzer dreamed of a peaceful retirement in these Appalachian hills. Instead, she is coping with a big problem after a nearby natural gas well contaminated her family's drinking water with high levels of...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Why the EPA’s Endangerment Finding Sets the Stage for Action]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Showing a fine sense of message and timing, the United States entered the first day of the crucial climate change conference in Copenhagen armed with a potentially game-changing decision from the Environmental Protection Agency:  Greenhouse gases threaten public health and the environment and must be regulated. EPA's announcement Monday sent...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:13:53 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EPA makes it official--greenhouse gases are pollutants:]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the eve of an international climate summit, the EPA on Monday formally declared greenhouse gases to be dangerous pollutants, strengthening President Barack Obama's hand and laying the groundwork for a new 35.5 mpg standard for light vehicles. The finding is likely to have a greater impact on electric utilities,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:10:08 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Game fails to beat 2008 performance]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Game Group, the high street computer games retailer, on Tuesday said it was treating the critical Christmas period "cautiously" after seeing continued soft sales for games and tough competition from supermarkets. In spite of record sales of two new launches, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Fifa 10, Game...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:44:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[TOM WALSH: Ford wants more of Chinese market]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://freep.com/ford">Ford Motor Co. is talking to its partners in China about changing the structure of the three-way Changan Ford Mazda venture in the world's hottest car market, Joe Hinrichs, Ford's new president for Asia Pacific and Africa, told the Free Press Monday. He also said that Ford, a latecomer to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:32:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sergio Marchionne: I can't do double-duty forever]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Chrysler Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne admitted to being human Monday. He said he won't indefinitely keep working seven days a week while flying between continents and overseeing two automakers and a farm-equipment business. The jet-setting exec, who's also CEO of Fiat SpA in Italy, signaled that within 24...]]></description>
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