Word: bn
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...Sarkozy is not alone in responding to cries for help from the car sector. The U.K. has set out a $3.4bn rescue package for its beleaguered car industry, even though it is mostly foreign-owned; Spain has stumped up $5.1 billion in public cash to bail-out car firms; and Germany has set aside $1.9 billion to pay owners to junk their old cars and buy something new. At the same time, the U.S. government has handed $17.4 billion to GM and Chrysler, a move that European carmakers say leaves them at a competitive disadvantage. (See pictures...
...judicial order to arrest me. They were ready to go against me in the Colosio case (in which the PRI presidential candidate in 1994 was assassinated). Why would I want this? The death of Colosio caused the most severe political and economic crisis within my administration. We lost $10 bn in capital flight immediately after his death. The country was at the brink of disaster...