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By TIMES WIRES
Published August 16, 2006
Chicagoans getting their fill of foie gras before ban These are dangerous times for waterfowl in Chicago. With the city's ban on foie gras - a delicacy made of duck and goose liver - six days away from going into effect, upscale restaurants in the city are serving it up like never before. They've put together special menus featuring it in course after course: searing it, chilling it, throwing it into salads and turning it into sauce. At the same time, foie gras (pronounced fwah-GRAH) enthusiasts are cooking up a lawsuit to keep it on menus or put it back after the ban takes effect Tuesday, holding fundraisers to finance their fight and asking diners to sign petitions in support of it. And those diners? They're savoring it a lot more - or at least more often - than they would have had the City Council not sided with animal rights activists in April by banning it. Ford to scale back dealerships in eastern U.S. Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it plans to trim the number of dealerships it has in 18 metropolitan areas across the country, blaming sliding car and truck sales for the decision. Most of the metro areas are east of the Mississippi River, but the company would not identify exactly what markets would be targeted. Dealers were told of the effort at the company's annual dealership meetings, which wrapped up last week in Las Vegas. "If you think about where we were in terms of sales and market share and where we are, you quickly realize that in certain markets, we have more dealers than our market share can support profitably over time," said Jim Cain of Ford. Harley moniker 'HOG' is now its stock symbol, too Harley-Davidson Inc. has changed its stock symbol to "HOG," a slang term for large motorcycles the company is famous for making. The new symbol replaced "HDI" on Tuesday. "I don't think I've seen anybody pick a better symbol," said Patrick Healy, who is president of Issuer Advisory Group and has helped companies including Chevron Corp. and Gateway Inc. choose stock tickers.
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