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Toyota officials insist that the company's reputation for quality, reliability and durability, which is at the heart of Toyota's brand appeal to consumers, will survive. Judging from the automaker's new advertising campaign - which extols the reliability and durability of the company's vehicles and notes that 80% of the Toyotas sold in the past few decades are still on the road - company executives are clearly concerned about the fallout from sharply rising recalls. Another sign of their anxiety: the automaker is stepping up plans to make some expensive safety options, like electronic stability control, standard...
...market plummets with announcements involving banking regulations, in the end so will lending. And unemployment goes unmentioned. Constitutional checks and balances are up for grabs when the president promises a “forceful response” to rulings issued by the Supreme Court of the United States on campaign finance restrictions. There are three branches of government, not one. Presently, the executive branch is being ruled by a demigod who wants control...
...this tactical decision by the Republicans has a deeper strategic purpose. Politically, there is no reason for the Republican minority to help the Democratic majority rack up policy accomplishments. If the Democrats pass major legislation, they can campaign on it in the midterm elections, preserving or even expanding their majority. This is especially true if Republicans sign on, which gives the legislation an attractive veneer of bipartisanship...
...intransigence killed universal health care and in the process made the Democratic leadership appear incapable of accomplishing anything. It resulted in a GOP landslide that fall. The supermajority requirement in the Senate, then, is not just a method to prevent policies the Republicans dislike but also a quite effective campaign strategy...
...island nation ended the 26-year-long conflict last May - but the advent of the poll has brought out deep tension, division and several alarming incidents of violence. "There is this foreboding sense that things could turn really bad," Keerthi Thenakoon, the chief executive of the election-monitoring body Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE), told TIME. "It is like sitting on a dynamite pile that is giving off sparks...