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...opposition, but by many other Burmese who revere her with a singular - if hushed - devotion. On sensitive dates related to the doomed democracy movement, some women put flowers in their hair, a subtle show of support for the silenced activist. Now, with the Lady suddenly in jail, flowers may bloom in Rangoon anew...
...money had one option - and usually that option wasn't a good one. The more options available, the more we give parents a chance to figure out what the best learning environment is for their child. To me it's not about letting a thousand flowers bloom. You need to have a really high bar about whom you let open the charter school. [You need] a really rigorous front-end competitive process. If not, you just get mediocrity. Once you let them in, you need to have two things. You need to give those charter operators great autonomy - to really...
...that deficit can be accounted for in retiree health and pension benefits - which means that one way or another, the hundreds of thousands of UAW retirees are probably going to get a lot less health coverage. The outlines of a plan are likely to be drawn up by Bloom, a pioneer in the voluntary employee beneficiary association (VEBA) approach. In a VEBA, the union agrees to accept a cash payment to fund a new health-care system that trustees administer, thus taking future liabilities off the company's books. That's what happened at Ford, where the company negotiated...
...White House's auto-task-force working group is headed by Steve Rattner, a former reporter who was head of the private-equity firm Quadrangle Group, and Ron Bloom, an investment banker who previously worked for the United Steelworkers union. Staffed by about 15 restructuring and other experts, the task force aims to do two things in the weeks ahead. First, it will try to close the deal on Chrysler's sale to Fiat. Sources familiar with the task force's approach describe Chrysler as "hollowed out" by a succession of owners and largely worthless, with no quality brands other...
...Bloom has taken the lead in trying to negotiate the sale of 20% (at least initially) of Chrysler to Fiat. His position has been undercut by Chrysler's tenuous finances, leaving Fiat holding the cards at the negotiating table. The $6 billion sweetener from the government essentially amounts to a dowry for Fiat to take the ugly bride off America's hands...