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...troubled - automotive brands was on the block. The Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp., Detroit's two biggest heavyweight players in the industry, both wanted what resembled a dented, but potentially valuable, possession. Ford won the ensuing bidding war, paying $2.5 billion for the coveted car brand. Accelerate ahead 11 years to 2000, and Ford again had its checkbook out, paying $2.7 billion for Land Rover, another luxury British carmaker that had run into some rough road. It also invested many billions more trying to turn both companies around, mainly by upgrading aging plants and developing new product lines...
...Looking ahead, there is arguably a further political purpose: to build a bridge to the Islamic world by the accession of Turkey. But although this is a formally agreed E.U. objective, most E.U. leaders, not to mention their peoples, hope and believe this will never happen...
Even before the Michigan and Florida decisions, Clinton's chances of overtaking Obama's lead in pledged delegates-those won as a result of primaries and caucuses-had looked dim. (He's currently about 150 delegates ahead, with only 10 contests left to go.) But her campaign had hoped that, had Michigan and Florida held new primaries, she would be able to take the lead from Obama in the popular vote total. And with that, she planned to make the argument to the party's "superdelegates"-the elected and party officials who get delegate slots by virtue of the positions...
...June], Senator Clinton would have the most popular votes, and that could have a huge impact on the superdelegates," said Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, a Clinton supporter who has helped raise more than $8 million in pledges of private funds to finance new contests. And if Clinton could pull ahead in the popular vote, he added, it would undercut "the whole raison d'etre of the Obama argument: How do you turn your back on the will of the people...
...contenders had taken their name off the Michigan ballot. ("Uncommitted" came in second, with 40%.) And Florida, which has 210 delegates, voted on Jan. 29. All of the Democratic contenders were on the ballot, but had pledged not to campaign there. Clinton won with 50% of the vote, well ahead of Obama...