Word: canadas
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...Motors Inc. GM, still the world's largest automaker, owns Germany's Adam Opel AG, the U.K.'s Vauxhall Motor Cars Ltd., Holden's in Australia, 50% of Saab Automobile AB in Sweden and about a third of Isuzu. On top of that, GM operates a joint venture in Canada with Suzuki Motor Corp. and an assembly plant called NUMMI in California with Toyota...
...long run. On the other hand, the company will follow the German mandate that half the 24-member supervisory board (a group separate from the board of directors) must come from labor, the remaining 12 from the combined management. That requirement could help build new alliances among unions in Canada, Germany and other parts of the world. "This means now there is a whole different environment at Chrysler," said Buzz Hargrove, president of the Canadian Auto Workers. Ultimately it will be up to I.G. Metall, the union that represents German autoworkers, whether the Americans and Canadians get seats...
Barbara Bradfield, 55, is living proof that this can work. A teacher turned homemaker in La Canada Flintridge, Calif., Bradfield is one of the lucky cancer patients who have already benefited from the new generation of gene-based treatments. She was 47 years old when she discovered a large lump in her breast. Tests showed that the malignancy had spread to her lymph nodes. Bradfield got the works: a double mastectomy and six months of chemotherapy, followed by radiation and then more chemo. It bought her 18 months of symptom-free life. Then one hot August night, she recalls...
...view of A.D. 2000. It was a sort of capitalist rebuttal, although by definition the free-market philosophy does not easily lend itself to Utopianism, with its regimented bliss. In A Journey to Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor, Socialism has hopelessly ruined Europe, while the U.S., having absorbed Canada, Mexico and most of Central and South America, virtually rules the world together with its ally, Great Britain. A great-grandson of the dynasty's founder, Astor was a playboy with a serious side. Fascinated by science, he spent much time working in machine shops and patented a number...
...released from prison for what Chinese officials say were medical reasons, suffered an angina attack on Tuesday and was hospitalized in Canada for heart tests before making his one-and-a-half hour public appearance at Harvard...