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...Chrysler vehicles will get a dash of Fiat spice. A secretive visit by Fiat executives to Chrysler's design studio in Auburn Hills, Mich., last December convinced Fiat executives that Chrysler could still put some new zip into vehicles such as the Jeep Grand Cherokee. Even before the bailout, Chairman Robert Nardelli had decreed that the company, with help from A123, a battery maker, and General Electric would move ahead to develop electric vehicles with four times the fuel economy of Chrysler's traditional sedans and Jeeps. "We're not going back," Nardelli said...
...tiny Fiat 500 is one of the first cars Chrysler hopes to build in North America through its new alliance with Fiat. "It's highly, highly likely that the Fiat 500 will be built in the NAFTA region," said Chrysler vice chairman Tom LaSorda after the deal with Fiat was completed as part of the company's structured bankruptcy. Lasorda added that Fiats will probably begin showing up in American showrooms within the next few months...
...threat of another disease - even a pandemic flu - tends to elicit shrugs in this sickness-struck continent. If asked what preparations they are making for the possibility of swine flu's arrival, most African governments opt for the same kind of wordy non-statement issued by African Union chairman Jean Ping on Thursday: "We hope to establish a continental plan for prevention, and if necessary a mechanism to fight this outbreak that has not yet affected Africa...
...sure his mama didn't raise him that way.' MICHAEL STEELE, chairman of the Republican National Committee, on Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter's defection to the Democrats. Steele accused Specter of "flipping the bird" to the Senate GOP leadership...
...taxing employer-provided health benefits. It's an idea that Obama criticized when his opponent John McCain proposed it during last year's presidential campaign, but one that his top White House advisers now say should remain on the table. And it is an approach that Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus says he is considering...