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Until June, the local Opel plant was enjoying a record year as Germany's economy hummed healthily along. In April, the company turned up the speed on its assembly lines to churn out even more cars. Instead of shutting as usual for three weeks during the summer, Opel closed the plant for just two and hired temps to supplement its full-time workforce...
...College with what seemed like documents aplenty: her approved voter registration card for St. Joseph County, where St. Mary's is located, along with her school photo ID, Social Security card and driver's license from Illinois, where she grew up. But under a 2005 Indiana law - upheld last April in a Supreme Court decision that has rankled voter advocates more than any other case since Bush v. Gore - Meentz was refused a ballot because she did not have an in-state ID. And without so much as an explanation of her options, like a provisional or absentee ballot, poll...
...bosses at RBS, the bailout will be particularly humiliating. Only last April, the Edinburgh-based bank called on investors for some $20 billion in much-needed capital, after subprime-related losses - and an ill-timed takeover last year of Dutch bank ABN Amro - blew a big hole in its balance sheet. "It's immensely regretful we're coming to shareholders to raise funds again," said RBS chairman Tom McKillop. "It's something we feel bad about." So bad, in fact, that McKillop now plans to quit next year; RBS CEO Fred Goodwin resigned Monday, as did his counterpart at HBOS...
...Martin Luther King, Jr., who had been killed that April, was supposed to be the Commencement speaker...
...Palin personally intervened in April, 2007, but her concerns were strictly local. She asked DOE to condition its approval on guarantees that gas needed in Alaska not be diverted to the better-paying foreign venues - a position she held until this past January, when the producers reached separate agreement with the state to meet its needs...