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...Chrysler bankruptcy makes a bankruptcy at GM harder because the American consumer may only be able to deal with the Chapter 11 of one of its auto companies, particularly the one that is the smallest of the three. But the consumer will almost certainly be forced psychologically, if GM fails as well, to purchase automobiles only from companies which are viewed as financially stable. That means that foreign car companies will have an even greater advantage than they do now. Chrysler lost 48% of its sales in April compared with the same month as last year. Domestic sales dropped...
...case of surf, sand and empty beach chairs. In February, French Polynesia reported a 30% drop in year-on-year arrivals - tourist numbers are now at levels last seen in 1996 - while the number of tourists cruising between the islands of Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda in 2008 sank by almost a fifth. The WTTC estimates the travel industry will contract by 3.5% this year and shed 10 million jobs...
...almost as cool as the finals club across from boloco that blasts music out of their windows whenever the sun is out. real cool guys, i wish i could sit on a balcony and look as cool as you. if only, if only...
Controversies like the Leyva death could prod Mexico to improve its general public health system once the epidemic has passed. The country of 110 million people still has fewer than two doctors per 1,000 inhabitants, almost half the average of countries belonging to the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In rural states and Oaxaca and Veracruz, where Mexico's first swine-flu cases (and first death) are believed to have emerged in late March and early April, access to physicians and nurses is even more threadbare. The nation's public health budget is about...
...developed countries like the U.S. As of Friday, the country had begun setting up reliable testing labs; and of the first 776 suspected cases they'd analyzed (there are about 1,500 total), 358 were confirmed as swine flu, with 16 deaths confirmed for now specifically from the virus, almost half in Mexico City...