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...side, GM CEO Roger Smith acquired Hughes Aircraft, EDS and a 50% stake in Saab. His successors bought the Hummer, 20% of Korea-owned Suzuki and 20% of Fiat with the obligation to buy it or pay to get rid of it. (The latter course was chosen, at a cost of $2 billion...
...make rather than the cars the public truly desires, you have to price them that way and use rebates to move the metal off the lots. "They are building cars that they don't want to build. They have to build them because they have a fixed cost structure to amortize," says Nick Gidwani, a former auto-industry investment banker with Sankaty Advisors and now head of the startup auto-sales website CarZen. Particularly after the post-9/11 sales slump, Detroit got addicted to this strategy and used it to move plenty of SUVs...
...bloodstained aftermath of the horror in Mumbai, India picks itself up, counting the cost in lives lost, in property destroyed and, most of all, in the scarred psyche of a ravaged nation. But there are other consequences, yet to be measured, that the world will soon be coming to terms with - ones whose impact could extend well beyond India's borders, with implications for the peace and security of the region and the world...
...Pakistan, but Pakistan has had the worst of four wars between the neighbors. For two decades, a succession of Pakistani military leaders has made it a point to support, finance, equip and train Islamist militants to conduct terrorist operations in India. The logic was clear: it was more cost-effective to bleed India from within than to challenge it through more conventional military means. Kashmiri militancy against Indian rule was fomented and supported by Pakistan, though India's own domestic problems - including the occasional eruption of Hindu-Muslim clashes, notably a 2002 pogrom against Muslims in the state of Gujarat...
...attack on India; they were taking on the "Jews and crusaders" of al-Qaeda lore. If it turns out that the massacre in Mumbai was planned in or directed from Pakistani territory, the consequences for Pakistan are bound to be severe. In such circumstances, there would be a "cost" to "our neighbors," Singh said, and India is likely to find sympathy and practical support from the countries of these other victims...