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Chrysler and GM will force 2,000 car dealerships to close. This event has elicited a great many opinions from industry experts. The consensus is that the most damage to the car companies will come from the anxiety facing potential customers who may buy automobiles at these dealers and expect to have them serviced there. The car buyers will not want to drive long distances in order to find a dealer who sells the brand that they want. They will buy a Toyota (TM) or some other brand because they know that continued service is virtually assured. They...
...nation would need more than 30 billion masks - 27 billion of the simple surgical kind, which can be worn safely for only about two hours before needing replacement, and 5 billion of the sturdier respirator variety, which also requires regular replacement - to protect all Americans adequately in the event of a serious epidemic. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Strategic National Stockpile currently contains only 119 million masks - 39 million surgical and 80 million respirator. That's less than 1% of the goal health officials set in 2007 following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, which highlighted...
...meeting, will pose questions to the Faculty about budget cuts, according to the plan.At 5:15 p.m. the group plans to hold a larger rally outside University Hall, where the Faculty meeting will be in progress. During the meeting, several students discussed methods to increase press coverage of the event to put more pressure on administrators. “There are mainstream media outlets that care about this,” said UC representative Eric N. Hysen ’11, “Now I think that’s something we can leverage...
...with a few or many of the perspectives on [the] site.” House Committee chairs, student group leaders, and UC members are organizing a rally to voice student opinion about the budget cuts. Council President Andrea R. Flores ’10, who helped to organize the event, said the discussion of budget cuts “really dominated the e-mail lists in a way I’d never seen before.” But she said she has yet to come to conclusion as to her position on specific budget cuts...
...bride's dress, was swiftly carried off by riot police. One woman, who was surrounded by cameras, was grabbed by riot police as she was giving interviews, her shirt torn on the way to the police bus. Peter Tatchell, a British gay-rights activist, flew to Moscow for the event. He was speaking to reporters before he too was arrested. "This shows Russian people are not free," he told reporters...