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But across the Pacific, it's as if the global economic forces that have pummeled Detroit never struck.

She told them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a book a week and do a book report for her.

When a TripAdvisor email with a Detroit Special Destination Update popped into my inbox yesterday, it was sort of a shock.

Edgar Vann, pastor of a large black church in Detroit, contends that this was simply "pandering to racial sensitivities" .

Manufacturing is still a big employer and it tends to be a very visible one, concentrated in places like Detroit, Stuttgart and Guangzhou.

However, facing the prospect of the collapse of one or more of the Detroit companies, the White House indicated it had few other options.

Similarly, the debate on bailing out Detroit's three auto makers often seems to play out in a theater of the absurd.

I remember we used to have the Detroit auto workers beat up an old Japanese car with sledgehammers. Like that would stop Toyota!

The Detroit carmaker decided to wind down Saab in early 2009 as it prepared to file for reorganisation in bankruptcy protection in the US.

Critically, Ford's market share, unlike those of its Detroit rivals, seems to be stabilising, at around 14%.

Nigerian man accused of trying to blow up a transatlantic flight last December has sacked the defence team at his trial in Detroit.

The Continental was an impressive car - and it still is - but people weren't ready to spend that kind of cash for Detroit metal.

The commercial interests of the US and China are converging in an unlikely place: in and around Detroit.

I might not ever be able to have the right to vote. But maybe someday, my grandchild might be the Mayor of Detroit.

A great aunt in Detroit, Mich. , offered to help him immigrate to the United States, he said.

Unable to sell his Detroit home, Sam Kirkland has been kept apart from his wife in Phoenix.

Some time ago , Shaub noticed that there wasn't much that was original , or at least attractive, coming out of Detroit in recent years .

Ford was the only one of Detroit's three carmakers to avoid a government bail-out during the depths of the 2008-09 recession.

A 23 year old Nigerian man was discovered trying to ignite explosives on his body before the flight he took landed in Detroit.

The White House did not officially comment on the loan amounts, which had been leaked by an unnamed source to the Detroit News.

"In Detroit they had two of the body scanners, which they were sending most people through, but other than that it was the same, " she said.

In exchange, workers would forgo cost-of-living increases that, until recently, had long been a way of life for Detroit's auto workers.

'I don't know who you know in Detroit , ' he said, 'but if you want your job back, you got it.

S. city of Detroit. Obama has said he would like to see Koreans driving U. S. -built cars the way many Americans drive Korean cars.

12-year-old german-swiss parker could be Detroit's most popular boy, but his mother because working reason brought him to China.

How much will that be if I drop it off in Detroit?

The struggling Detroit-based carmaker said yesterday that it was not in talks with any other company about a sale of Volvo.

That might be a little expensive for Detroit since homes were selling for less than cars there .

Making and installing them was the business of the Detroit workshop that he joined at the age of sixteen.

It was their third attempt to get a passport for Anwar, who plans to drive to Amman before flying to Detroit to meet her husband-to-be.

's status as the only Detroit auto maker to avoid a government bailout has helped the company outperform its rivals.

Other industries connected with the automobile were attracted to Detroit, and more and more factories sprang up in and around the city.

Jack said he had found a job. He would be working as a bartender in Detroit.

in this week's mailbag, especially after he made some comments at a function on Wednesday night, just two days before his trade to Detroit.

He was born in 1953, and grew up in London, Ontario, a manufacturing town midway between Toronto and Detroit.

In Detroit, could a worker who sets out on his own and fails expect to be re-employed within a few months?

The group claims to have provided him with the explosive device he allegedly attempted to detonate as the jet was about to land in Detroit.

Mr Wagoner noted Detroit's Japanese rivals had spent more than a decade trying to match its leadership in SUVs and pick-up trucks.

Auto industry executives are trying to make Silicon Valley engineers feel at home in Detroit.

He enlisted in the U. S. Army, served a four-year term, and met and married his wife, Caroline, in Detroit.

I sat up with it all night writing a song for Fred, who was supposed to call me from Detroit.

Everything Mr. Feinberg said since has been scrutinized on Wall Street and in Detroit as if he were Britney Spears.

Another blog suggests the craze was started by women in Detroit, trying to raise awareness for the disease.

Jennifer and her two younger brothers were raised in a middle-class suburb of Detroit by her mother and stepfather.

One of the largest manufacturing cities in the United States, the metropolitan area in and around Detroit is also one of the most packed.

After my mother father after discussing, they want to me fly directly to Detroit, not to be in the United States "Mama" filled trouble!

The Pistons president maintains he will be able to re-sign Billups thus keeping him in Detroit.

GM's decision pitches the Detroit-based company into a new confrontation with the German government over Opel.

A year later, at the spring championships in Detroit, Mr Cayne was again holding his own at the bridge table.

Now it might be the turn of a Chinese automaker to take over some of Detroit's unwanted brands.

I met you back in the 40's when you were in Detroit at the Book Cadillac to judge a Miss Cover Girl contest.

I can't help but think of all of the Detroit artists who needed your support and never got it, or at least didn't get enough of it.

Known as the Detroit Auto Show, the annual event is one of the industry's biggest.

Closed: The US recession has already forced car dealers, like this one near Detroit, out of business.

Dunne, the son of renowned auto spy photographer Jim Dunne, grew up in Detroit and currently lives outside Jakarta, Indonesia.

All this has prompted two overdue epiphanies. First, Detroit needs to plant the seeds of a new economy.

She was born in a Detroit suburb and her parents recall that she hummed before she could talk.

Officials say the bomb was a redesign of an explosive that was used to try to blow up an airplane bound for Detroit from Amsterdam in 2010.

In Detroit, ironically for me, the celebration took place in the ballroom of the Renaissance Center.

in 1914 , when the basic wage for an industrial worker in detroit was $ 11 a week , ford announced that he would pay his workers $ 5 a day.

Just "who was that masked man" , the first episode of the Fox radio program "the lone ranger" airs on station WXYZ in Detroit.

Memory #1: I grew up in a nice middle class neighborhood in Detroit, with cozy houses, fenced in backyards, and close neighbors.

The annual introduction of new-car models from Detroit was a major event for both the dealers and the general public.

Housing is only 10 miles from downtown Detroit, located in a good community, single family homes along the boulevard distribution.

He was recognized for his work for cross-cultural understanding through groups like the International Visitors cancel (Council) of Detroit.

But it's particularly acute for Detroit's auto makers, which are playing catch-up in the race to develop global cars.

On Christmas Day Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian, failed to set off his bomb properly on a Detroit-bound passenger jet.

Mr. Wale, the president of G. M. China, admittedly has very different concerns from his counterparts in Detroit.

Meanwhile, Ford has capitalized on its status as the only Detroit car maker to avoid bankruptcy protection.

Protecting banks, Wall Street, Detroit, housing, construction, etc. is protectionism even if it hasn't resulted in a change in tariff rates.

After seeing photos of the formerly prosperous North American town of Detroit in 2005, they realised it would be a perfect place to work.

Growing up in Detroit, Michigan, I remember going to watch him play softball every week.

The company began this year's Detroit show with a lavish event attended by Hollywood celebrities.

America was on the road to prosperity never dreamed of before and Detroit was the promise of the limitless future.

DE-branded cars will be designed and built not in Detroit, but rather near Proton's base camp in Malaysia, at least initially.

It has become usual to think of Detroit as again not meant for people, though today the culprit is not belching industry but its absence.

Once upon a time, the thought that Korean or Japanese vehicles could compete with Detroit seemed preposterous.

Fard, an ex-con, silk salesman, and eccentric storefront preacher who turned up in a Detroit ghetto around 1930.

In 2006 he surprised many by starring in London as the streetwise gambler Nathan Detroit in the musical "Guys and Dolls. "

Just as Detroit depends on the health of the motor industry, Las Vegas relies on gaming for its lifeblood.

Ford escaped the fate of the other two Detroit carmakers by tapping credit markets just before they began to freeze over.

DETROIT seems to be where Wall Street meets Main Street.

GM's board said after a meeting in Detroit on Tuesday that it had accepted Henderson's resignation.

In the wake of the alleged attempt to bomb a Detroit-bound plane, Britain could step up airport security with targeted passenger profiling.

Nick Reilly, head of GM's Asia-Pacific operations, said China is one of the 'centerpieces' for the Detroit auto maker's future.

Lim, chairman of dermatology at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and a spokesman for the American Academy of Dermatology.

The Detroit firms' fortunes are even more closely linked to the general health of the economy than competitors'.

He had only a few coppers in his pocket when he came to Detroit.

He remembered back to a younger, happy, healthy life, when he exercised daily and even played minor league baseball for the Detroit Tigers.

Ford Motor, GM's Detroit rival, had the top-selling model in the clunker program with its fuel-efficient Focus.

The body of a homeless woman was also found lying next to a car on Sunday in Detroit.

She grew up in a wealthy suburb of Detroit in Michigan and did well at school.

A neighbour described to local Detroit television witnessing the naked boy being frog marched outside by his father.

It's not a bad showing for Detroit, considering American automakers' financial and organizational woes over the last 18 months.

They were the main focus at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit this week as the car companies unveiled future vehicles.

For screening of the German Lufthansa passenger plane took off from Reykjavik International Airport, and continue to fly to Detroit.

"Detroit, " he said, "is where we shall open our first office. "

EM: Experienced Detroit man, it's always like you kick us, you know , we get back up.

Detroit is currently known as the Motor City, but a new Michigan tax credit system could see the town renamed the Battery City.

Extending a helping hand to Detroit auto makers, long a central part of the nation's manufacturing base, doesn't appear to be a given.

If Detroit had spent less time lobbying for government protection and more on improving its products it might have fared better.

In parts of America at least, such as Detroit and Philadelphia, many houses have become less expensive to buy than they were to build.

He was also embroiled in controversy when he bristled at coming off the bench for Detroit.

Detroit Electric is looking to repeat similar contract production partnerships with manufacturers in Europe and the United States.

Security measures are not the only impediment to travel between Detroit and Windsor.

But, regarding TripAdvisor, I was just rummaging around the site, conducting some Detroit hotel searches.

FOR ALL the woes of the city that hosts it, Detroit's annual motor show is still a bellwether for America's car industry.

While Detroit slept, Japan had transformed itself from a low-wage economy into a hotbed of business innovation.

And each time, without fail, Detroit manages not to see this coming.

Need to dodge that exhaust pipe sitting in the middle of the road (something you see in Detroit a lot) at the last second?

Toyota unveiled its largest-ever light truck in Detroit, and is thought to be planning several new American factories.

FOR the past two years the Detroit motor show has been a dismal affair.

The boy came into Romulus Liquor in recent days wearing pajama bottoms and buying snacks, store owner Sam Saco told The Detroit News.

The equity rally continues, in spite of the knock it sustained when the White House decided to get tough with Detroit.

Now, the auto world is buzzing that China's auto industry may try to pick up the pieces of Detroit -- at a bargain.

As a teen, he was a cross-country star in high-school, an "outstanding" violinist, and worked in Detroit's automotive machine shops.

To remain competitive, during the restructuring, the Detroit companies won the right to hire a portion of new workers at $14 an hour.

Within two years, Japan is likely to introduce plug-in hybrid, and away from the hands of Detroit for more market share.

156 people were killed when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while trying to take off from Detroit.

GOING GREEN: A woman protested against automobile factory layoffs during the 2010 North American International Auto Show in Detroit Monday.

In terms of unemployment, the troubles of the Detroit auto industry have hit Michigan in the Midwest especially hard.

It has been described as a package to help the undeserving dinosaurs of Detroit.

Just as other Detroit carmakers are clamoring for more federal loans, Ford has managed to reduce its debt by almost $10 billion.

Tait said adjusting census figures, however, is not the answer to solving Detroit's population decline, and Michigan's fiscal crisis.

Auto executives around the globe gathered for the glitz and glamour of the annual auto show in Detroit.

The very livelihood of thousands of autoworkers in Detroit depends on a drastic turnaround, particularly for General Motors.

a week's paid engagement right here at the famous Detroit Theater.

So when Detroit University offered her a full scholarship , before she heard about money from U-M, she chose the former .

Long recognized as the historic heart of the American automotive industry, Detroit took on the nickname "Motor City. "

For the moment Detroit appears balanced between desolation and renewal.

Here's what last week was like: On Sunday I flew to Detroit and gave a speech at the Public Relations Society of America.

"I'm playing, " he said Wednesday night after the Cavs beat Detroit without him.

About a year ago, I registered at a Detroit hotel.

By then, things may be so desperate in the economy and Detroit that even Washington will stop throwing good money after bad.

This is one place where Detroit is at a significant disadvantage thanks to the condition of its broader economy.

THE sign for the American Beauty Electric Iron building in Detroit has only five letters left, spaced far apart in a gap-toothed grin.

Auto plants across the country, especially in Detroit, are sitting there just waiting for people to come in and build cars.

Perry's victory and Harrison's large force caused the British to withdraw from Detroit, and from a British fort at Malden, in Canada.

Scientists acknowledge that the extra heating costs may outweigh the air-conditioning savings in cities like Detroit or Minneapolis.

And while his New Port Ritchie, Fla. , dealership used to get mostly Detroit model trade-ins, he's now seeing mostly Japanese nameplates.

Someone earning an income in the 50% range in Detroit may not be able to afford even a small house in Los Angeles.

The Renaissance Center, world headquarters of General Motors, towers over abandoned warehouses along the Detroit River in downtown Detroit.

And there will probably be some lively pro-forma debate on Detroit's business plans and whether they're 'credible' or not.

To put it in Middle Eastern terms, sir, this new platform has connected Detroit and Damascus and Dara'a.

The first major prefabricated, floated, and sunken tunnel was the Detroit River Tunnel between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.

It might also avoid the kind of public relations debacle Detroit's fat cats endured last week.

But it did. Detroit fell victim not to one malign actor but to a whole cast of them.

From Detroit's grey streets to the lovely bays along the Great Lakes, it teems with plans for future prosperity.

For some reason or other they decided to move to Detroit.

Contentious body scanners mushroomed after the "underpants bomber" tried to blow up a Detroit-bound jet last December.

That was the intent of the collective of artists who painted those houses and about a dozen more across Detroit.

In Detroit this week, the company unveiled a new version of the Focus, its top-selling car.

Through it all, Mr Cayne remained in Detroit and in minimal contact with Bear executives or other board members.

"(China) is an important market for us, " Chief Executive Matthias Mueller told Reuters Insider on the sidelines of the Detroit Auto Show.

Now the roads used by this Detroit-area reviewer aren't exactly up to par.

And that has excitement rising over the potential return of carmakers absent this year, reports the Detroit News.

But her victory was already becoming tarnished by revelations that she won a pole dancing contest at a strip club in Detroit in 2007.

Ford, the only of the Detroit Big Three not to receive a government handout, plans to increase production in Q3 by about 10 percent.

While GM doesn't own a controlling stake in Wuling, underestimating the unit's importance to the Detroit auto maker would be a mistake.

That's the word from Fritz Henderson--GM's new CEO, who spoke to reporters last hour in Detroit.

The eighth- seeded Orlando Magic will try to end their first- round playoff series against the Detroit Pistons Wednesday night .

Newspaper reports in Detroit suggest that this could rise to as much as $5. 9 billion for the full year.

Visitors to the Motown Historical Museum in Detroit, Michigan, experience some of the excitement of Motown's early years.

The Stanley Cup Champion Detroit Red Wings visited President Bush at the White House Tuesday.

But Billups was always most likely to re-sign with Detroit and he did.

Soon after the Court's decision Fiat sealed its alliance with Chrysler, in which it is buying most of the Detroit carmaker's assets.

When results are announced on Tuesday, analysts expect the Detroit automaker's operating profit will be two and a half times Fiat's.

There are neon motel signs, back-country roads and an old Detroit auto plant rebuilt as a sports arena.

We've got major Decepticon activity in Detroit. The city has turned into a war zone.

Warehouses like the one along the Detroit River hold about 1 million tons of aluminum, or almost 25% of the LME's stocks.

General Motors (GM), Ford and Chrysler made cars on both sides of the Detroit River, sending parts and vehicles back and forth at will.

The company has its headquarters in Downtown Detroit, Michigan.

Comerica, America's 23rd-largest bank, according to Fortune, moved its headquarters from Detroit to Dallas a year later.

Perhaps a presidential visit to a factory or two in Detroit.

The Detroit area housing market, already deeply depressed, has plummeted since the buyouts.

As with previous Detroit aid, the latest short - term funds will be carved out of the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.

The MGT Corporation controls the money, the police and the media of Detroit.

Detroit, its largest city, is known worldwide as the center of the American auto industry.

A waste pit near a number of Detroit auto factories fills with a rainbow of unidentified substances.

Earlier in the morning, those at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit paused as well.

You have to: Detroit has no commuter trains, no subway, metro or underground.

It was raining that day in Detroit when it came in, I remember it well. It sat in a carrier all by itself.

Among the cities darkened were New York , Detroit Michigan and Cleveland Ohio .

The state's outlook is clouded by the long decline of Detroit's motor industry.

Straight from the horse's mouth: Michael Curry will be the next coach of the Detroit Pistons.

Two days later, his widow is in a conference room in suburban Detroit meeting with Tom Macksoud, who runs a business called Simple Funerals.

Dr Stephen Barlett is a dentist who has practiced for nineteen years in an upper-middle-class suburb just outside Detroit.

He graduated from Wayne State University in Detroit with a B. S. Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Having said all of this, a Detroit bail-out is going to happen anyway, so how can the US get the most from its flawed investment?

Some of the Detroit-area jobs will be transferred to the Jefferson North Assembly Plant that builds the Jeep Grand Cherokee .

After I was discharged from the Navy, Jim and I moved back to Detroit to use our GI bill benefits to get some schooling.

In terms of employment, car and truck plants and dealers, Detroit's infrastructure is too big.

FOR almost a century the fate and fortune of Windsor , Ontario, have been intertwined with those of Detroit, Michigan.

Tom: Not at all. I am employed in the Research and Development Department of a company based in Detroit.

Detroit auto makers were already knocking at the door.

recent revelations about chery products , however , have taken detroit ' s hand off the panic button.

On Aug. 30, the company will outline its plans for Fiat's U. S. rollout at a dealer meeting in Detroit.

But it was the Motor City, Detroit, that rolled into last place.

Indeed, in recent years Thailand has conspicuously tried to present itself as the "Detroit of Asia" .

It's in Motown, which is short for "Motor Town, " which is a nickname for Detroit, the Motor City and home of the U. S. auto industry.

Now the tables have turned and Detroit's automakers are looking to Asia to help ride to the rescue.

Federal agents expect to be at this Detroit-area horse farm for several weeks to search for clues to Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance.

Fiat has not decided whether the combined group's headquarters will be in Turin or Detroit.

Detroit Electric was an early 20th century electric car brand launched by the Anderson Electric Car Company over 100 years ago.

"What he's doing is masterful, " said Paul Reagan, a management consultant and senior lecturer at Wayne State University in Detroit.

THE mood at the Detroit motor show this year was very different from the dark days of 2009.

German and Japanese cars were inherently better than anything Detroit was turning out.

Gaudy marketing claims aside, those betting on Detroit's dominance of electric cars should prepare for a shock.

In fact, the latest in Detroit's tradition of phoenix-like revivals (followed two years later by let-downs) is already occurring.

Executive succession at Ford is one of Detroit's enduring spectator sports.

At the beginning of the auto (automobile) industry, many people were attracted to Detroit.

After that, the four-time scoring champ jumped from Philadelphia to Denver to Detroit to Memphis and back to Philadelphia again.

Toyota's embattled chief executive, Akio Toyoda, making his first visit to the Detroit show, admitted that the firm "did receive damage" .

At last month's Detroit auto show, motoring writers voted the Genesis, Hyundai's first luxury sedan, North American car of the year.

He subsequently attempted to set off a bomb on a Northwest Airlines flight traveling to Detroit.

Other passengers said they had no indication of anything unusual until the plane approached Detroit.

In the email, TripAdvisor asks whether I'd like weekly updates on Detroit, and I clicked "no thanks. "

It may also cost less than the $40, 000 many had expected, General Motors officials hinted at the Detroit Auto Show earlier this month.

Flames shot hundreds of feet into the air after a gasoline tanker exploded and overpass collapsed all near Detroit .

With a gallon costing $4, demand for the big pickups and SUVs that provided most of Detroit's profits evaporated.

Add in the option of places like Raleigh and Austin, and the road to a Detroit comeback looks much longer and uncertain.

One option for Europe, assuming the Detroit Three get their money, would be to complain to the World Trade Organisation.

Sure, Houston gets to go home, but Detroit, Dallas and Orlando, three of the NBA's top teams thus far, won't go quietly.

The later Detroit two stroke engines had both a blower to make them run and a turbo for top end power.

Then the fate of Detroit will become a problem for President-elect Obama and the newly-elected, much more Democratic Congress to tackle.

Obama on Thursday also congratulated the Penguins for winning hockey's Stanley Cup in seven games over the Detroit Red Wings.

A tragic misunderstanding may have contributed to the 2006 death of Sherrill Turner, 46, who collapsed in her Detroit home.

The Detroit carmaker's finances remain on shaky ground, with a credit rating deep in junk territory.

He called 911 in Detroit twice when his mother collapsed.

Flags fly outside the General Motors world headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, last week.

Airports worldwide tightened security following a suspected terrorist act on a Detroit-bound airliner, AP reported.

The local Al Qaeda branch has been linked to the Fort Hood shootings and the attempted bombing of a Detroit-bound airliner.

Magazines ran cover stories about how Detroit got caught with its pants down.

Sergio Marchionne likes to be at the centre of attention and he got his wish in Detroit this week.

THE UNVEILING: Volkswagen introduced its New Concept Coupe hybrid at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Monday.

On February 4th the Detroit Pistons, an American basketball team, failed to sell out a home game for the first time in five seasons.

Yao and T-Mac experienced what Shaq and Kobe did. The defending NBA champion Detroit Pistons are a tough match for any dynamic duo.

I was 17, the daughter of Bolivian immigrants growing up in suburban Detroit.

The recent case in Detroit where two Chinese stole GMs technologies for hybrid and electric cars is an example of this flavor.

In Detroit, General Motors is working on what might sound like a pipe-dream: crash-proof Cadillacs.

Our fans in Detroit are gearing up for Saturday's game against the Oakland A's.

The gunman was disarmed by police and arrested at the scene of the shooting, a Detroit gas station.

Innumerable town squares and pocket parks have been created or beautified, even in gritty places like Detroit.

After a day's sailing, the ship passes the Detroit lighthouse at dusk.

Everybody should be glad that General Motors and the rest of Detroit have recovered from the recession.

This year's rise in gas prices caused sales of trucks and sport-utility vehicles -- the main sources of Detroit's profits -- to plunge.

Personnel of the Detroit Police Department'sradio bureau, began experimentation with a band near 2 MHz for vehicular mobile service.

And both Detroit and Washington want to sell a stake quickly, so the firm can shake off the embarrassing nickname of "Government Motors" .

The filmmakers put out ads in St. Louis and Detroit posing as a documentary crew looking to document the effect of the recession.

Automakers, especially Detroit's Big Three, face collapsing sales, threatening their plans to invest heavily in more fuel-efficient cars.