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Meanwhile, Johnson Control Inc. of Milwaukee, a major supplier to Asian automakers operating in the U.S. such as Toyota, said it expects to report a loss for the quarter ending Dec. 31. "Global automotive production is significantly worse than just two months ago," said Johnson Controls chairman and chief executive officer Stephen A. Roell. "Our customers continue to announce production reductions and plant shutdowns on a weekly basis. Every region of the world is down by a double-digit rate," he added...
...thing we do count on is job security.” “When the specter of layoffs is in the horizon, you think, ‘How indispensable am I, really?’” said Gustavo Espada, a financial coordinator for the East Asian languages department. “I think a lot of the anxiety comes from that.” —Staff Writer Esther I. Yi can be reached estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
...Thais can only hope that Abhisit's own vow to promote national unity will hold. Otherwise, in a time of global economic peril, Thailand will suffer just as badly as it did back when the Democrats were last in power. That was during the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis when the party's inability to discipline unwieldy coalition members led to political paralysis and financial mayhem. Instead of taking decisive action to gird the economy, politicians seemed to spend more of their time squabbling with each other and cooking up corrupt deals that alienated the public. Now that...
...because Beydulla’s home situation had not changed since his application, his stay at Harvard has been extended through the East Asian Languages and Civilizations department...
...government has, in past years, changed its policies to make it more difficult to teach Uyghur language...in elementary education, to practice religion,” said Mark C. Elliott, a professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History in the EALC department, “so in many ways I think the general perception on the ground for many Uyghurs is that their situation has gotten worse in the first decade of the 21st century...