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...clock is ticking for the Americans, however, and here's why: Detroit loses money on passenger cars. (Trucks have always been profitable.) The problem was a long time coming, as Japanese and later Korean automakers scored annual gains in quality, profitability and market share. But U.S. automakers were lulled into complacency in the 1990s by the supersize profits of their SUVs (light trucks, technically), which just a decade ago earned profit margins as high as 25%. Ford was an innovator with its Explorer model and just kept making them bigger. Meanwhile, the Japanese started making good SUVs...
...demand for accountants, engineers, financial planners, physical therapists, computer support specialists, advertising executives, real estate professionals and sales and marketing managers-especially, for that last group, those with international experience. ?The pendulum has swung back in favor of workers,? says Richard Bayer, chief operating officer of the Five O?Clock Club, an outplacement service based in New York. His typical client today lands a job offer in under 10 weeks, versus more than 13 weeks the past few years...
When his alarm clock sounds at 6:30 a.m. each morning, Peter J. Gomes considers sleeping in until...
...official and suggested that her son try the sport. Within two years, Davis was winning regional titles. Now 6 ft. 2 in., he propels himself with long, powerful strides to the forefront of the long-track events, in which two skaters race next to each other but against the clock. This winter, defying speed-skating convention, Davis tried to become the first skater to compete in both long-track and the more roller-derby-like short-track events at the same Olympics, but he fell just short of making the short-track team...
...wasn’t. The committee was not assuaged by the letter, and Summers continued to field intensifying criticism for his remarks. Inside Mass. Hall, where work is conducted in library voices and the loudest sound is usually the grandfather clock in the foyer, tension was escalating...