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...pickup trucks and SUVs, Ford's only major profitable segments, have plummeted in the last year, hit by high gas prices and stiff competition from GM and Toyota. A 21% production cut is in store for the rest of the year. Any way you slice it, Ford is shrinking fast. And it may be years before the company consistently posts profits again...
...type of sedation a doctor will aim for in a given operation, there are no hard-and-fast rules. In general, operating on the extremities offers more options than operating on the body's core, but the dividing lines between levels of anesthesia can be blurry. Once you get away from major surgery, pain control and sedation are often mixed and matched according to patient preference. Says Dr. Ronald Pearl, chairman of the department of anesthesia at Stanford: "It's not uncommon when we do a spinal anesthetic, say for knee surgery, to ask the patients whether they want...
...management." He called Freston's replacement, Viacom director and former senior company executive Philippe Dauman, the right person to fulfill the vision he had when he announced the split of CBS and Viacom nine months ago. "We are on the right track but we need to move to the fast track," said Redstone. "Philippe will enable us to refine and aggressively implement a digital strategy with energy, focus and speed. He will let no opportunity pass and let no competitor ever beat us to the trophy...
...very name Monaco carries about it the whiff of tuxedos, fast boats and ruinous expense - and all three will be in evidence at the Monaco Yacht Show, monacoyachtshow.org, to be held in the principality from Sept. 20-23. If you command the kind of disposable income that puts you in the market for a Lürssen or a Sunseeker - the Maybach and the Rolls-Royce, respectively, of pleasure yachts - then any of the 520 exhibitors representing 77 shipyards, 29 yacht brokers and 54 naval architects would be delighted...
...with Internet access, billiards and table tennis (there's also a restaurant serving Cantonese and European fare). Can such behemoths really be considered spas? "They are more like leisure entertainment complexes for the masses," says Maggie Gunning, managing director at Spa Synergy, a Singapore-based spa consultancy. They're fast becoming hotel alternatives, too. An extra $17 at LaQua, for instance, lets you stay overnight in a fully reclining chair. Factor in the $23 entrance fee, as well as the costs of a massage and a meal, and you still have a bargain when it comes to lodging in Tokyo...