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A Ford Escape sport utility vehicle is shown in front of a Ford dealership in Elyria, Ohio, Wednesday, May 1, 2002. Ohio Gov. Bob Taft and Ford officials, speaking at the dealership Wednesday, said the company will begin building the Escape at the Avon Lake, Ohio plant in 2003. Ford Motor Co. will keep an 800-employee assembly line going by switching production to the Ford Escape sport utility vehicle. The decision means continued jobs for workers who faced possible layoffs as the company ends production in the next two months of its poor selling Mercury Villager and Nissan Quest minivans. (AP Photo/The Morning Journal, Paul M. Walsh)