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...store too. For 2008, the company decided to roll back its list prices and back off the rebates. The sticker price of the 2009 Forester, for instance, was lowered to $19,995, from $21,295. "We had to bring down our incentive costs and stop selling based on the deal," says Tom Doll, executive vice president of the company, which is a division of Japan's Fuji Heavy Industries...
...Politicians from Italy's rich north tried to block the deal because Air France has promised to shift Italy's main hub from Milan's Malpensa back to Rome. On Monday, Milan mayor Letizia Moratti pleaded in vain for Alitalia's managers to reconsider a partnership with German carrier Lufthansa...
...international airline consultant with inside knowledge of Alitalia said the deal was inevitable despite years of waste and posturing. The companies are already linked through the SkyTeam alliance (along with Delta, Korean Air and others), and Air France and KLM have their own recent merger experience to work from as take in Alitalia. "This is the first real substantive positive step toward a viable long-term solution," said the consultant, who requested anonymity because of his company's work with the parties involved. "Everything before has been just kicking the can down the road, and political folly...
...bring an admiral who last served in the Pacific out of retirement seems to me to be ignoring a great deal of expertise that's available in the still-serving military. So I would think that, with all respect for Admiral Blair, there was a lot of people who would have been a better choice." - Michael Scheuer, ex-CIA bin Laden chief, January 6, 2009, the Newshour with Jim Lehrer...
...efforts to protect sharks - catching rare white pointer sharks is illegal, for example - is resulting in an increase in attacks. In particular, they object to a policy of letting suspected man-eaters go. "Sharks do hang around after the attack, and the government has a duty of care to deal with it," says Queensland fisherman Vic Hislop. Sharks "learn to kill humans. They learn to go in hard and fast...