Word: dumps
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...President has offered only to speed through Congress an already approved $25 billion loan to help Detroit create new fuel-efficient models. But GM needs an additional $10 billion simply to pay its bills next year and $15 billion more to close plants, compensate redundant workers and dump some of its lesser-performing brands...
...scheduled to close. But Grant Thornton's Rodriguez says that still leaves five to go to match demand. "They still need to take structural steps: reduce suppliers, reduce the number of plants, reduce the cost structure and get rid of excessive debt." Most analysts say GM has to dump underperforming brands...
...hundreds of thousands of dollars. A year ago, the golf membership belonging to Kim Joo Hyong, the chief executive of a small trading firm, was worth $350,000. But as the shockwaves from the U.S. financial meltdown slammed into South Korea in September, Kim nervously watched cash-starved golfers dump their memberships on an Internet site that tracks their value, sending prices plummeting. The country, he became convinced, was about to suffer a financial crisis even worse than the great conflagration that engulfed Asia in 1997, when a near bankrupt South Korea turned to the International Monetary Fund...
Rock, Chris •McCain is mocked - "We can't all dump our first wife and marry a rich...
...afternoon storm clouds gather, an almost daily occurrence in wet and steamy Singapore, work goes on as usual at the Marina Bay site of Las Vegas Sands' $4 billion resort and casino project. The earthmovers scoop and dump the soft soil, and workers fan out across the city-state's most coveted piece of land, which girdles the central business district and offers a sweeping view over the emerald waters of the Malacca Straits...