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...fend off the unsolicited merger, Anheuser-Busch management last month itself unveiled its own "Blue Ocean" cost-cutting program, promising savings of $1.09 billion by 2011 but losing around 1,200 jobs in the process. And with global recession threatening, beer markets consolidating, barley and aluminum prices soaring, and sales declining in many mature markets, there are fears of further cuts. Tellingly, Brito made no promises on job cuts, nor on the sale of non-core assets like Anheuser-Busch's theme parks and its aluminium can recycling units...
...would insist that bogus parts had never caused a plane to crash, and that there was no increase in the number of bogus parts, just more reports. On my desk in a light blue folder lay a computer printout that clearly indicated the NTSB did not agree. Page after dense page described accidents the NTSB tied to counterfeit parts. For instance, in 1990 a Pan Am Express flight crashed when its nose landing gear jammed "due to the installation of a bogus part by unknown persons...
...small convent chapel on the other side of Sydney Harbour, they did the same at the tomb of 19th-century Australian nun Mary McKillop. Both are patrons of World Youth Day and, their supporters hope, will soon be declared saints by the Church. Out in the bright blue, southern hemisphere winter day, pilgrims strolled or sat in the sunshine, strumming guitars, snapping photos, checking daily Papal text messages, and buying "I [heart] Jesus" T shirts...
When we last saw Amanda Knox, she was bundled in a gray jacket against the crisp early winter air of the Italian hilltop city of Perugia, her crystal-blue eyes glancing anxiously toward a photographer's camera. The 20-year-old American exchange student with the Ivory-soap complexion was on her way to jail, charged in the murder of her British roommate, who was stabbed in the neck and bled to death in the flat they shared in the picturesque Umbrian capital...
...shutdown will affect more than 10% of Toyota's 43,000 employees in the U.S. Toyota is also scrambling to rebalance its manufacturing operations to accommodate its best sellers. The company said it will build hybrid Priuses at a plant now under construction in Blue Springs, Miss. The Blue Springs plant is scheduled to open in 2010. The Highlander crossovers that were supposed to be made in Mississippi will be made in Indiana instead, and all pickup trucks will be made exclusively in Texas, according to Toyota...