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...will exceed $100 billion. Add billions more in subsidies for researching and developing green technology and still more billions in tax credits to motivate buyers to go green. If someday GM and Chrysler become consistently profitable, the government loans will be repaid and both companies restored to total private control. The operative word being...
...Although just half of GM's European businesses are located in Germany, Berlin has effectively grabbed control of efforts to save GM's Opel and Vauxhall operations, which GM's board in Detroit this week centralized under Opel's control. But Belgium and the U.K. are no longer willing to just follow Berlin's lead. Politicians and union leaders there fear that Chancellor Angela Merkel, facing re-election in September, is preparing a deal that would save GM jobs in Germany at the expense of plants in their countries. (See 10 milestones on the road to GM's bankruptcy...
...grilled both sides, and it took her only 15 minutes to rule in favor of the players. "She obviously had done her homework well before the case was argued," says Donald Fehr, the head lawyer for the players' union. "She was in control of her courtroom." Sotomayor issued an injunction against the owners that ordered them to restore free agency and arbitration. With the injunction in place, the players agreed to return to work while a new labor agreement was hammered...
...Soccer - referred to here as football - has been slow to catch on in China. When the Republic of China was founded in 1949, authorities took control of the development of all sports and turned them into yet another political project to achieve international recognition. Almost all resources for sports development went to élite sports schools that serve as talent pools to represent China in international sports events. Amateur sports, with little political significance, have been largely ignored. China established its first professional football league in 1994, following the example of European leagues. The system, however, never fully embraced...
...Monday afternoon, large-scale rioting spread to six districts, leading Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, himself a Sikh, to issue a televised appeal. "Invoking the teachings of the Gurus, I appeal to all sections of people in Punjab to maintain peace," he said. The situation has spun out of control before. In May 2007, a prominent sect leader with significant political links, Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh of Dera Sacha Sauda, had invited the ire of the Sikh masses when he addressed a congregation dressed as the tenth Sikh Guru, Gobind Singh, which is against Sikh tenets. Ram Raheem Singh's support...