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...odds of a GM deal with bondholders may be more bleak. As part of its offer to bondholders, presented Monday, GM is offering to exchange 225 common shares for each $1,000 of principal amount of bonds. The offer covers $27.5 billion of bonds, and based on the recent price of GM stock would result in bondholders receiving less than 40% of a bond's original face value. GM's chief executive Fritz Henderson described the terms of the offer as "stern." For the swap to take place 90% of the bondholders must accept the offer. If that percentage...
...tentative Chrysler agreement with the UAW, announced on Sunday, is said to maintain the pension fund and retiree health care fund, though it may include some reduction in healthcare benefits, just as the Canadian agreement does. Guided by the February terms of the original Treasury loans, the deal between the UAW and Chrysler also reportedly includes partial funding of the retiree healthcare trust with equity instead of cash. "We recognize this has been a long ordeal for active and retired auto workers, and a time of great uncertainty," said UAW President Ron Gettelfinger. The deal was reached, Gettelfinger said...
...must agree on a reduction in the amounts owed. At Chrysler, bondholders made concessions on Friday, reducing Chrysler's $6.9 billion of outstanding debt for the second time. The bondholders had earlier agreed to accept $4.5 billion; on Friday they reduced the amount further, to $3.75 billion. A final deal with creditors much be reached by May 1. Among Chrysler's biggest bondholders are JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Even if Chrysler reaches a deal with its major creditors it may still decide to enter Chapter 11 as a way to further clean up its balance...
...disease proved particularly troublesome at Hong Kong's Prince of Wales Hospital, where one "superspreader" patient infected more than 90 people, including many health workers. "At that time, the number of isolation beds and isolation wards was very limited, so we really didn't have the infrastructural capacity to deal with such a major infectious-disease outbreak," Hong Kong University's Peiris says. Now the situation has greatly improved, he adds, with infection-control policies that minimize unnecessary movement of people in and out of hospitals. Currently, the government has 1,400 beds available for infectious-disease patients...
...think 1976 provides an example of how not to handle a flu outbreak, but what's interesting is that it made a good deal of sense at the time," says Hugh Pennington, an emeritus professor of virology at Britain's University of Aberdeen. Pennington points out that conventional wisdom in 1976 held that the 1918 flu pandemic - which started among soldiers and eventually killed as many as 40 million - was the result of swine flu (scientists now know it was in fact a strain of bird flu). Despite modern advances in microbiology, today's health officials still make decisions...