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According to The Detroit Free Press, some analysts expect another 21% decline in 2009. This drop could be even more significant in a deep or prolonged recession. If the market share of The Big Three continues to decline, the numbers will be even worse for the U.S. car companies. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...this point it would be almost impossible to argue that U.S. car companies will not need $100 billion. One million domestic car sales are worth about $25 billion in revenue. A drop of three million vehicles sold from 2008 to 2009 would pull nearly $75 billion out of the market...
...Chrysler are already running into trouble with the UAW, creditors,and suppliers as the two companies bargain to drop costs. The union says it gave plenty of concessions during the last set of contract negotiations. For cosmetic purposes, it may bend more but is probably willing to gamble that the government will not allow the two car companies to go into bankruptcy and force the loss of hundreds of thousand of jobs in an economy that is already battling rapidly rising unemployment...
Auto suppliers are being asked to drop prices on components, but many of these firms are already close to bankruptcy on their own. Price concessions may simply create another set of companies that need government assistance...
...cycles has increased. As the science of IVF has improved, the Society of Assisted Reproductive Technology, an affiliate of the ASRM, has progressively lowered its recommendations regarding how many embryos should be transferred in each cycle. According to the group, IVF-facilitated births of three or more babies dropped 69% from 1996 to 2005. That's no coincidence: in the same period, the average number of embryos transferred went from 3.9 to 2.4, a 38% drop. (Read "Calculating the Odds of a Baby Through...