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...awash in red ink, Ford Motor overall is still profitable, thanks to trucks like the F-150 and its finance and global business, which includes Mazda, Volvo and Land Rover. (Another brand, Jaguar, is losing money.) On the cost side, the U.S. carmakers are dragged down by the huge burden of benefits for retired workers, such as health care, which account for $930 of the cost of each of GM's vehicles, $560 of Ford's and only $110 of Toyota's--putting the Americans at a severe disadvantage. Ford loses $258 for every car it produces, compared with Toyota...
...third-party investigation and recommended that Michigan not renew its contracts with the company, which expired on Jan. 1. We can’t help but express skepticism about the logic used by Michigan to end its contract with Coke. Both its process and its weighting of the burden of proof appear suspect. From a process standpoint, without the power to conduct independent investigations on its own, the DRB was reduced to entertaining the accusations and counter-arguments from all parties in order to divine the truth about allegations. The very difficulty of this method of establishing facts...
...meetings and evening socializing. London is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world, and it has been asinine for its pubs to shut at 11:00 p.m. Adults need to take responsibility for themselves; the change in the drinking laws is a necessary step toward shifting the burden of responsibility from the state to the community. Danny Mermel London In other times, youths used to rebel against society and parents by smoking joints or taking drugs. Nowadays they prefer alcohol. I think the French are quite right: instead of forbidding alcohol consumption or punishing their children for imbibing...
...stay open. Pubs are places in which people have lunch and get together for afternoon business meetings and evening socializing. It has been asinine for the pubs of London to shut early. The change in the drinking laws allowing longer hours is a necessary step toward shifting the burden of responsibility from the state to the community. DANNY MERMEL London...
...financial burden can be too much. "Sometimes families go into debt to buy this gold for the weddings," says Kondababu. "Sometimes families get broken up by gold." Economists argue that the gold bug has other pernicious effects. If the money used to buy gold was invested in banks or stocks, rather than being locked up in a non-productive asset, it would boost India's GDP significantly, they say. But old ways of thinking die hard. Gold is seen by many as a safe haven in an uncertain world. "So many banks fail and close their doors, and ordinary people...