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...recently renegotiated an agreement with the United Auto Workers. How much is that going to save Ford? Catherine Desoe NEW YORK CITY...
...have a global financial system without an effective form of supervision. We've got huge climate-change and energy problems that can only be addressed at a global level. And we've got problems of poverty that need some international response. On these very big issues, you've got agreement that the world has got to work together so that global financial flows are in some way supervised beyond simply national regulators. Every other crisis has been dealt with by countries taking action to solve their national problems. This crisis can be dealt with only by us acting internationally. Over...
...haul of $4 million for the same two books. Obama already has a contract to write a third nonfiction book for Crown when he leaves office. Crown also announced Thursday that Dreams from My Father would be adapted in an edition for middle-schoolers, in a licensing agreement worth...
...life inches along at the speed of a pedicab. But nearby, the rush for oil and gas is intense; last year, Russian, Thai and Vietnamese companies signed exploration deals with the junta. In late December, a consortium of four foreign companies, led by South Korea's Daewoo, inked an agreement with the junta and China National Petroleum Corp. to extract natural gas from Arakan's offshore Shwe fields and pipe it northeast through Burma to China's Yunnan province. The pipeline, along with a plan for a new deepwater port in Arakan where ships laden with Middle Eastern...
...anger. The public is mad about having to bail out the financial institutions who got the world into this mess - and the recent revelations about payouts to fat-cat executives at AIG, RBS and elsewhere are stoking the anger. It's time for some symbolic action. One suggestion: an agreement that every firm receiving taxpayers' money should pay its employees the same as other public-sector workers, such as teachers. That would assuage public fury, and provide an incentive for the banks and insurers in question to sort out their problems fast...