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...were to go into a free-fall bankruptcy and didn't pay its trade debts, then the entire domestic auto industry shuts down," says Rodriguez. The system - the domestic auto plants and their interconnected group of suppliers - is far bigger than GM. It includes 54 North American manufacturing plants and at least 4,000 so-called Tier 1 suppliers - firms that feed parts and subassemblies directly to those plants. That includes mom-and-pop outfits but also a dozen or so large companies such as Lear, Johnson Controls and GM's former captive Delphi. Beyond those are thousands...
...needed to get involved with. Same with fiscal stimulus legislation. Paulson shepherded the last stimulus bill through Congress in January. Not this one. "My focus is on the financial sector, on getting credit going, getting lending flowing," he said. "I can't imagine anything that would have a bigger stimulative impact." In other words, he really doesn't want to take on anything more at this point. Can you blame...
...Professors hope that the greater flexibility to craft a plan of study in the concentration will attract bigger numbers...
Throughout its history, Afghanistan's many wars have not been fought for territorial gain; instead, its indigenous protagonists have been proxies for bigger, more complicated enemies. During the Great Game, the British fought there to prevent the Russians from invading India. In the 1980s, Americans equipped mujahedin to bleed the Soviet Union dry. In the civil war following the 1989 Soviet withdrawal, Pakistan backed the Taliban, a fundamentalist faction fostered in its own religious seminaries, to counter Indian influence in the rival Northern Alliance. When the Taliban captured Kabul in 1994, Pakistan was one of only three nations to recognize...
...Manual Rhetoric.” Both of these volumes dealt with the significance of minute hand gestures, details which would have been noticed by almost all 17th century audiences. When asked about the importance of these subtle hand gestures in a contemporary performance, Hargis said, “The bigger issues of asymmetry and serpentine curves in Baroque performance practice are still helpful to the understanding of this music in the 21st century, even if the smaller subtleties are lost. Sometimes these principles and subtleties will enhance the playing of a character, but sometimes it won’t, which...