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Toyota's advertising slogan is "Moving Forward." But the company's U.S.-based executives keep moving out. James D. Farley, head of Toyota's Lexus division and a driving force behind the popular Scion brand, has left to run Ford Motor Co.'s global marketing operation, Ford said yesterday. He is the third high-level executive to leave Toyota's North American business since August. Last month, James E. Press, Toyota's top U.S. executive and former head of Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc., quit to take a job at Chrysler, which earlier had hired Deborah Wahl Meyer, then head of marketing for Lexus, Toyota's luxury brand.

On September 8, 2007, HARRY MICHAEL FORD, SR. Survived by loving wife, Janet L., Sons, Harry M. Ford Jr. (Judith) and Samuel Brown (Koya), daughters, Krystal Footman and April Ford, brothers, James G., Joseph, Phil and Maurice Ford, sisters, Doris Pickett, Eva Galloway and Jane Muyhee, nine grandchildren and a host of other family and friends. Friends may call the WYLIE FUNERAL HOME P.A. OF BALTIMORE COUNTY, 9200 Liberty Road on Wednesday from 6-8PM. Services Thursday in the Chapel of the above mentioned funeral home, 12:00pm Wake, 12:30pm Funeral.

DETROIT -- Struggling Ford Motor Co., which posted a record $12.7 billion loss in 2006, agreed to pay its new CEO, Alan R. Mulally, more than $28 million to help rescue the 103-year-old automaker, according to a filing yesterday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Mulally, a former Boeing Co. executive who was the keynote speaker at the New York auto show this week, publicly accepted the Ford job in September. While his annual salary is set at $2 million, his compensation package for last year included $666,667 in salary for the final quarter of the year, as well as a host of other add-ons.

The nation's 38th president didn't live quite long enough to bask in the glow of the latest assessment of his presidency, Gerald R. Ford, by the historian Douglas Brinkley. Ford, who died Dec. 26, would have seen that his pardon of Richard M. Nixon has not only faded as a negative in the eyes of most Americans, but also is now judged a distinct positive. Moreover, Brinkley gives Ford high marks for restoring Americans' faith in their government as well as for several foreign and domestic successes.

This summer, Sue Ford is preparing to write lesson plans instead of legal briefs. After 18 years practicing environmental law, Ford left a comfortable job at an Annapolis firm to teach biology at Annapolis High School. Now she's learning an alphabet soup of concepts -- AYP, NCLB, IEP -- that are part of the modern-day, high-stakes era. Her students' scores on the state biology test, one of four they have to pass to get a diploma, will be under a microscope at a struggling high school that is at risk of a state takeover if it doesn't improve.

DETROIT -- DaimlerChrysler AG and Ford Motor Co. beat analysts' sales forecasts last month, benefiting from strong truck demand and heavy discounts as the auto industry's second-best U.S. sales year drew to a close.Ford, the world's No. 2 automaker, said sales of domestic cars and light-trucks rose 6.1 percent, ahead of the 0.6 percent predicted. DaimlerChrysler's Chrysler sales rose 6.9 percent, surpassing the 5 percent forecast. General Motors Corp. said it will beat estimates when it posts sales today.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft Corp. formed a joint venture with Ford Motor Co. yesterday, creating a system that will let consumers buy "built-to-order" cars online.The companies will use Microsoft's CarPoint online car-shopping service as a foundation of the new business.Currently, shoppers use CarPoint to research cars, measure resale value and contact dealers for no-hassle pricing. The new service would go further, allowing consumers to buy online the specific car they want -- for the time being, only Ford models.

Lloyd Ford has been named softball coach at North Carroll, a school official announced yesterday.Athletic Director Bill Rumbaugh said Ford, the school's junior varsity softball coach for several years, replaces Rich Harvey, who has taken a teaching position at a high school in southern Pennsylvania."

DETROIT -- Ford Motor Co., the world's second-largest automaker, said yesterday that it will start recycling junked cars and create a used-parts clearinghouse that it expects to add $1 billion a year in revenue and help control landfill growth.Ford said it bought Copher Brothers Auto Parts, a Tampa, Fla., company, as it forms a new global business unit that will take apart old cars and trucks to resell the parts to body shops, insurers and consumers. Ford didn't disclose a purchase price.

VAIL, Colo. -- Battles over growth bedevil communities throughout the country, but rarely have they generated such anger as they have in one of Colorado's premier ski resorts.Objections over plans to build affordable housing for people who work in hotels, shops and restaurants grew so heated this summer that Mayor Rob Ford quit two years before his term expires."At some of the meetings we had, things got so bad that I was uncomfortable without an undercover police officer there to protect me," Ford said.

On August 9, 2009, KENNETH. Beloved brother of Zollie Ford III and Gary Ford; cherished by his sisters Elder Carolyn Yarn, Sheila Bushrod, Phyllis Ford, Antoinette Ford and Cynthia Thomas. Visitation 2140 N. Fulton Avenue, Friday 5 to 8 PM. Family will receive friends at church of the Living God, 2402 W. Fayette Street, Saturday 10:30AM, funeral to follow at 11 AM.

On July 31, 2009, RAYMOND RUSSELL FORD. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Thursday after 8:30 A.M where the family will receive friends on Friday at 11:30 A.M follow by funeral service at 12 P.M.

One Saturday in the near future, amateur golfer Mike Ford will tee it up for the first time this spring. If all goes according to plan, he will arrive at the course early, stretch, take a few practice swings and, when it's his turn, try to smack one down the middle of the fairway. The only difference is this year, for the first time since 1997, Ford won't be doing it at the Hillendale Country Club. Instead, having recently surrendered his membership, he'll be playing at one of the 120-plus Maryland golf courses open to the public.

After more than a year of declining sales, February provided a glimpse of even worse times to come yesterday as General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co., Toyota Motor Corp. and Chrysler reported declines of at least 40 percent in the U.S. market. Despite record incentives from carmakers, worsening economic conditions kept dealerships quiet and consumers in their older cars, making the past month the worst February since 1967, according to GM. GM said U.S. sales were down 53 percent for the month, with 127,296 cars and light trucks sold, while Ford's declined 48 percent, with 99,060 sales.

When Angelo Ford was killed in a shooting Nov. 23 in South Baltimore's Sharp-Leadenhall community, just blocks from the heart of Federal Hill, the initial reports were that he had been shot over drugs. That was only part of the story. Ford, 49, was indeed shot over drugs, but not because he was buying them or fighting with a rival dealer - he was shot for trying to get a group of people to stop selling near his girlfriend's house, according to charging documents. His girlfriend, Saundra Grove, was also shot, and a 27-year-old neighborhood woman who has a history of drug convictions has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder.

WASHINGTON - In their quest for a financial lifeline from Washington, U.S. automakers filed detailed plans yesterday for reinventing themselves for a leaner, greener future, but what might do more to win over a skeptical Congress was another round of disastrous news from the nation's car dealers. New car and truck sales plunged 37 percent in November, the latest in a string of dismal sales reports stretching back more than a year. And evidence that the bottom is falling out of an industry with supplier and dealer networks that stretch across the country could bring the economic and political costs of a collapse home to uncertain members of the House and Senate.

Auto sales dropped sharply in September as consumer unease mounted in the face of the crisis on Wall Street and restricted credit. Toyota Motor Corp., Chrysler, Ford Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. reported U.S. sales declines of more than 30 percent for the month, compared with September 2007, while Honda Motor Co. and General Motors Corp. showed sharp downturns, as well. Overall, the industry sold 964,873 vehicles - a 26.6 percent slide from a year earlier and its biggest percentage drop in 17 years, Autodata Corp.

After several well-publicized violent incidents last school year, Baltimore's teachers got a lesson on how building stronger relationships with their students reduces the chance of classroom disruption and increases achievement. "When students have positive caring, nurturing and supportive relationships with their teachers, classroom problems decrease," said Donna Ford, who holds the Betts Chair in education and human development at Vanderbilt University. After attacks on teachers last year, including one at Reginald F. Lewis High School that was videotaped on a cell phone and replayed on national news, teachers told schools chief Andres Alonso and Mayor Sheila Dixon at a forum that they needed more professional training to help them deal with disruptive students.

In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Harrison Ford reinvents the hard-guy archaeologist who carries lots of dents and a bottomless haversack of tricks. He convinces you that between 1989's Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (set in 1938) and The Crystal Skull (set in 1957), Jones has never stopped making things up as he goes along. A knack for exploiting twists of fate is crucial to Indy's makeup - and to the success of the entire series. At its best, it's been an inspired partnership between director Steven Spielberg and this sometimes gnarly, sometimes daffy star.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Major automakers will close their books today on what is expected to be the worst year of car sales in almost a decade. December's likely retreat has done little to inspire hope for a broad turnaround in the coming year, according to Goldman Sachs analyst Robert Barry, who predicted double-digit declines from a year ago for both General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC. Barry is looking for Ford Motor Co. to fare the best of the domestic competition, but only because December a year ago was so weak.