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...despite costly incentive programs. Saddled with excess capacity and sluggish sales of all-new cars like the Pontiac G6, the company recently forecast a first-quarter loss of nearly $850 million. Highly profitable, full-size SUVs like the Chevy Tahoe risked looking like beached whales as record gas prices crimp sales and consumers shift to smaller models and hybrids made by rivals. (Until recently, GM dismissed passenger-car hybrids as a lousy business, though light-truck hybrids are in the works for 2007.) GM's credit rating teeters a notch above junk, and rumors of a bankruptcy filing, which...
...fuse remains shorter than his good ole boy demeanor suggests. He also allows himself to be annoyed too easily by those correspondents who seem to specialize in baiting officials. With the Great Communicator still on the mend, the testiness that Speakes displays in suffering reporters, fools or otherwise, could crimp the ability of the White House to get its story across. --By James Kelly. Reported by Barrett Seaman/Washington
...your computer underperforming? Online activities such as downloading music, installing programs and accidentally opening strange e-mails can crimp the efficiency of even the fastest machines. Here are five steps for keeping your Windows clear...
...your computer underperforming? Online activities such as downloading music, installing programs and accidentally opening strange e-mails can crimp the efficiency of even the fastest machines. Here are five steps for keeping your Windows clear. --By Maryanne Murray Buechner...
...House press corps. Not just on what we wrote-that was his job of course. But you could see it in the actions of the correspondents after a briefing: Lots of kicking of trash cans or spontaneous verbal eruptions to no one in particular. The Bush team promised to crimp the flow of information from the White House and Fleischer executed that policy masterfully...