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...Crimson’s final competitor faced the hardest tournament of all, bowing out before he really got started. In Jantzen’s first bout, his opponent pulled around him in a takedown attempt as the sophomore’s ankle got caught in the mat. Jantzen had nursed a bad ankle throughout the season and this final twist proved too much for the joint to bear...
...health care. But the economy appears to be shifting. And unless Obama finds a way to shift as well, or the economy recovers in a way some economists now think unlikely, Obama's new "Era of Responsibility" may be viewed by historians as no more than another predictable attempt by a political leader to repaint the sides of a sinking ship...
...Tata Troubles While the company seeks to redefine the low end of the market, Tata Motors is struggling with its attempt to gate-crash the luxury-car segment. Last year, the Indian carmaker made auto-industry waves when it spent $2.3 billion to buy Ford Motor's lossmaking Jaguar and Land Rover (JLR) business. Since then, demand for luxury vehicles has tanked, sales of Tata Motors other models have softened, and the company faces a looming deadline to refinance $2 billion in loans for the JLR deal. "That's a major cash-flow crunch for them," Jajoo says. The company...
...structure similar to that used in the highly competitive computer industry, where companies such as Apple create products but subcontract the actual manufacturing to specialists operating factories in China and other countries where labor costs are relatively low. "What I tried to describe on the Nano is an attempt to look at [outsourcing] as a business model," Tata says...
...media in Mumbai on Sunday. Bollywood superstar actor Shah Rukh Khan, who owns Team Kolkata and was part of the IPL governing council meeting where the decision was taken, was more magnanimous: "We need to respect the general elections, they are much bigger than our issue. This is an attempt to resolve our problems [rather] than create more." (See pictures of cricket...