NEW YORK (Standard&Poor's) Oct. 29, 2009--Standard&Poor's Ratings Services said today that credit measures for The Goodyear Tire&Rubber Co. (BB-/Negative/--) are on track to meet our expectations for the current rating, based on third-quarter results. For example, we estimate that free operating cash flow totaled about $292 million in the third quarter, helped by a $366 million decrease in inventories, and that free operating cash flow was a negative $73 million for the first nine months. We expect free operating cash flow to be negative in 2009, but we do not expect cash use to exceed $350 million this year. We believe that level of cash use will be manageable, given Goodyear's liquidity. At the