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General Motors desperately wants to avoid bankruptcy. But at the same time, the automaker is preparing for that possibility. One thing on the to-do list: figuring out where to file for bankruptcy protection, should it come to that...
...surprising how easily Austen's novel succumbs to the conventions of a zombie flick. Much of Austen's work is about using wit and charm and good manners to avoid talking about ugly realities like sex and money. In Grahame-Smith's version, zombies are just another one of those ugly realities. "What was so fun about the book is the politeness of it all," says Grahame-Smith, who's a freelance writer in Los Angeles. "They don't even like to say the word zombie, even though their country is besieged by zombies. They're everywhere, and people...
...what it's worth, Zandi says he is a registered Democrat. But he has an instinctive ability to avoid offending anyone, which happens to be a smart business strategy: politicians can cherry-pick from his research to bolster their own agendas; they then invite him to testify on Capitol Hill (he has done so half a dozen times in the past year), which leads to more TV interviews, which boosts business for Economy.com On a recent Thursday in Washington, Zandi spent the first part of the morning presenting his outlook for the U.S. economy to a crowd of Moody...
...prime mortgage crisis. “I don’t know of anyone who foresaw the ramifications of the sub-prime crisis through the whole economic system,” he said. “At least until last July, I thought that we could avoid a recession in the United States. All that is gone now.” Robert Z. Lawrence, a professor of international trade and investment at the Harvard Kennedy School, emphasized the important role that globalization played in spreading the crisis. “If ever we needed a reminder of how interdependent we?...
...ship was sinking until it was too late, Beijing launched the first national care program the following year to provide free services to those infected with the virus. "For a long time China missed the opportunity to tackle AIDS head on," says Schwartländer. "They tried to avoid it, and I think they really ignored the problem...