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...people who are left there are busting their guts to make this thing work," Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli argued back. At another point in the hearing, Nardelli told Dodd that the weakest of the Big Three can survive alone and that $7 billion is all it will need "to avoid, Mr. Chairman, having to come back and again ask you for support." Utah's Bennett broached the idea of Congress writing into any package a proviso forcing GM and Chrysler to merge. UAW chief Gettelfinger questioned the benefits of such a move, saying, "In terms of synergies, it's debatable...
...that we have to fly commercial, and they don't. Anyone who has spent time seething at an airport hub, squished into a middle seat of a 737, or paid $2 for a bottle of water and some attitude has nothing but venom for those who can avoid it. The corporate fleet has mushroomed over the years as commercial service has deteriorated. Going from Grand Rapids, Mich. to Jackson, Miss.? That will only involve an entire day shoehorned into "regional" jets apparently made in a region where all the people are 4 ft. 6. It was the reduced service...
...Automakers also took steps to avoid the kind of public relations disaster that dogged their first aid-seeking trip to Washington D.C. last month Ford chief executive Alan Mulally and Chrysler Chairman Robert Nardelli said they would drive to Washington D.C. Mulally, in a carefully worded statement, also said he would reduce his $21 million salary to $1 if the company tapped the federal line of credit...
...sent his wife Carla Bruni and Foreign Affairs Minister Bernard Kouchner instead. By the time the day of the meeting rolled around, the French press was reporting that the Dalai Lama had become so disgusted at Sarkozy's cave-in that the Tibetan leader feigned an illness to avoid having to greet the Plan B delegation. (In vain: he wound up hosting Bruni and Kouchner at the inauguration of a Buddhist temple in the south of France...
...decide to buy a fund, just make sure you do so after any capital gains are distributed for the year. There's no need to field that tax bill since you can avoid it by buying shares after gains are paid - usually by the middle of December...