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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To me it was a foregone conclusion because the union and the company had already agreed to it.
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isn't going to make or break the company.
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These are vehicles on the market mainly because of the insanity of regulators in states like California that are worried about emissions standards,
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These are things they've got to do, but there's a lot more. They've got too many models, too many people and too many plants for the amount of business they're doing now.
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These are small, insignificant adjustments relative to the size of the company.
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It would be a dream come true to score and incredible to score the winner.
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It was the sweetest moment in my career,
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This is really more a matter of Mark Fields wanting to get his own people in place.
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A decline is not a surprise here, but the size of the decline is a surprise,
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Asian makers particularly are exploiting Detroit's 2,000 dollar per-vehicle cost-of-production disadvantage (which largely stems from the US manufacturers' enormous legacy costs) to offer stylistically and technologically more advanced vehicles.
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The business does not deserve a huge premium. It's a cyclical business, earnings are erratic.
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(Delphi) is one of the chief things that was holding GM up and causing fears of bankruptcy. On Broad and Wall there's a collective sigh of relief.
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Detroit will slap on big incentives, and we'll be back to normal.
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Detroit was an island surrounded by prosperity this year. The big SUV sales collapsed and did a number on their profitability. Both GM and Ford will lose a little market share in 2006, but not at the rate of 2005.