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...Early results are encouraging. Chrysler's non-U.S. sales jumped 10% in the second quarter of this year, and it anticipates selling 250,000 cars overseas by the end of 2007. Currently, Western Europe accounts for about half of Chrysler's sales abroad. That percentage will drop to 35% to 40% as it ramps up efforts in Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Analyst Jay Nagley of consultant Spyder Automotive wonders why Chrysler even bothers with Western Europe, a very developed, tough market. It should, he says, concentrate on emerging markets. "At least in those countries, everyone is starting...
...puzzle is that there's no real evidence that the economic prospects of Western Europe have suddenly improved 40% compared with the U.S. This makes it tempting to assign the dollar's drop to the customary moodiness of currency markets, in which traders make guesses about the future and inevitably get things wrong for years...
...Monday, Jaime Cangas, 40, kisses his wife Karen, 36, goodbye as she leaves their Plano, Texas, home and heads toward the airport. As a consultant for Accenture, she will be gone until late Thursday night, working with clients in faraway cities. Jaime, who sells and markets security software, will drop off their children Caroline, 7, at school and Mitchell, 3, at day care. He shops for groceries during his lunch break, then picks them both up at 6. When they get home, the kids blow kisses at Mommy through the webcam...
Bial’s creativity was born of frustration while working in public schools in New York City, where she would see her students go off to college only to drop out six months later. A former student told Bial that he would have stayed in college if his posse were there with...
First, some history. Because Marines deploy aboard ships, the service's chiefs have always hungered for vertical lift - aircraft that could take off and land from small decks and fly far inland to drop off combat-ready troops. As the Marines' Vietnam-era CH-46 choppers became obsolete, commanders started to dream of an aircraft that would give them more options when considering an amphibious assault. The dreams intensified following the failed Desert One mission in 1980 to rescue U.S. hostages in Iran. In the course of the operation, three helicopters broke down, leading to an order to abort...