Yet everywhere GM goes, Ford is dogging its footsteps, threatening to overtake it to become the world's biggest, and so strongest, car maker.Ford is also building a global network, even though the global strategy that it forged five years ago gives preference to acquisitions.
Until Mr Schuller's sudden reappearance, the right had convinced itself that "les affaires", as the scandals dogging the president are conveniently termed, were irrelevant.Watch it, JacquesVarious courts, from the Constitutional Council down, had ruled that an incumbent president cannot be forced to appear before any judge, even the persistent Mr Halphen.
Bullish Tory MPs insist that since the Lib Dems are currently polling around 10%, they will not do anything that risks undermining the government and so precipitating a general election.This week's vote has not made the overlapping economic and diplomatic dilemmas dogging Britain's position in the EU better or worse.
Whatever turns out to be the truth of the allegations dogging her, for now she looks like a bulwark against chaos, not an agent of it.
And the reward for Greeks with information leading to a conviction of a member of November 17th has been doubled to 1 billion drachmas ($2.9m).The International Olympic Committee has already warned Greece that the Olympic Games, due to be held in Athens in 2004, will be moved elsewhere if the delays already dogging preparations go on and if Greece cannot do better against terrorism.
Despite dogging Tony Blair's footsteps for a month this spring, critics argue, the former Times editor failed to find out much about goings-on at Downing Street during a crucial episode in the nation's history.
Or will the nightmare dogging the Clinton presidency have yet more instalments, leading America into its worst political crisis since the disgracing of President Nixon almost a quarter of a century ago?
Last year one group of defectors set up a new party, Polish Social Democracy, hoping to distance themselves from the scandals dogging the government, led then by Leszek Miller.
Amid the hubbub, the one question he will not have to deal with is the one that has been dogging the 68-year-old executive for months: will he be leaving for a new job as chief executive at Microsoft?
Ehud Olmert, the prime minister, called the raid "an act of war" and talked of "restrained" but "very painful" consequences for both Lebanon and Syria.It is a pattern that is dogging Israel more and more.
And he is soon to face another bout of questioning before one of four tribunals looking into the various scandals still dogging Irish politics and big business.
