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...deal. The decision to sell Opel and Vauxhall to Magna is a coup for Merkel who has staked her credibility on the bid, a joint offer from the Canadian car-parts manufacturer and Russia's state-owned Sberbank. Since May, Merkel and the German government have thrown their weight behind Magna's offer, arguing that Magna already had extensive experience in building autos. Berlin also likes the fact that the Magna bid will keep open Opel's four factories in Germany, thus saving more jobs there than rival proposals...
...recover to its 2007 prerecession levels. OPEC is also betting on a fast global recovery. Angola's oil minister, José Maria Botelho de Vasconcelos, the current rotating OPEC head, told the meeting attendees in Vienna on Wednesday that "the darkest days of financial turmoil and economic recession are behind us." That belief has helped to persuade OPEC leaders that they can keep oil prices high without risking a demand collapse - as happened last year...
Though the two said they had learned many of these lessons in their coursework at Harvard, they agreed that hearing first-hand accounts explaining the rationale behind hundreds of years of traditional medicine was a life-changing experience...
...basically a sub-resident in that I didn’t have all the knowledge but I was really hands-on with the patients and going behind the scenes,” he said...
...visiting women’s organizations and talking with women about their lives during her summer trips to India and Africa. When she addressed members of SEWA in Mumbai in July, she noted, “We simply will not make progress in our world if we leave women behind.” As both Clinton and noted New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof emphasize, the world must pay attention to the well-being of half of the world’s population for society to effectively fight against its fundamental problems...