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...event of a bankruptcy-filing down the road, Treasury (i.e., taxpayers) will stand behind senior secured lenders, getting first claim on the automakers' unencumbered assets, those not already pledged to a prior lender. GM says it has such assets - power trains, some foreign operations - and Chrysler says it has assets to secure the loans as well. As with other TARP assists, the government will also receive warrants that (theoretically, at least) could...
Bush, George W. •claim of to have "never said the Taliban was eliminated" is boldly made by despite on-the-record-and-easily-retrievable comments by in 2003 ("we destroyed the Taliban") and 2004 ("the Taliban is no longer in existence") •shoes are thrown...
Aside from bankers and automakers, few can claim as rough a ride in 2008 as those in the airline business. Eye-watering fuel prices in the first half of the year and the onset of a global slump in the second will mean a $5 billion loss for the industry this year, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). More than 30 carriers from Hong Kong to the U.S. have gone under in 2008. Desperate to trim costs and bolster revenues, carriers are turning to mergers to survive, and nowhere is that happening more than in Europe. "The name...
...report having been a victim or having known one, according to a new survey by the Mexican polling firm Gabinete de Comunicacion Estrategica. In the same poll, 45% of Mexicans who have a phone line said they've been victims of telephone extortion, in which persons call a residence, claim they've abducted a family member and demand a ransom. Often the claims of abduction are false; but either way, because the fear of kidnapping is so high in Mexico, the callers usually get money...
...indeed. Obama's greatest achievement was that he managed to win the presidency while respecting the intelligence of the American people. Oh, he pandered some and at times nudged up against the line of acceptable political behavior: he did claim, falsely, that McCain was responsible for the loss of 8,000 jobs in Ohio. But he was solid on all the big stuff. He refused to take tawdry short cuts, like supporting a "gas-tax holiday" during the primaries against Hillary Clinton. He has, since the election, remained true to the promises and philosophy he proposed during the campaign. Most...