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...global restructuring that will bring the best products from its overseas operations to the U.S. If there are new labor contracts in place, the domestic automakers also stand to be cost-competitive with the transplants, which will translate to more profit per car, even if selling smaller cars means fewer sales dollars...
...famine struck, but it didn't shake his grip. Ever since then, China has been pressuring him, unsuccessfully, to reform his economy. Kim has been able to resist such demands partly because North Korea is dynastic, with a cult of personality that is freakishly strong; there are no fewer than 30,000 statues and monuments to the Kim family throughout the country. Kim has three sons from which to choose a successor, and it's now become something of a parlor game among analysts to select the front runner. At the moment, that seems to be Kim's youngest...
Fast-forward to 2008, and Barack Obama has transformed the political landscape. His call to unite the nation not only attracted the young, but it also hooked some members of the most improbable constituency—the Republican Party. But, while Obama brought fewer prejudices to the presidency than his predecessor, did he also succeed in breaking down our biases and clinging to comfort...
Both architects of the new General Education curriculum said that they would have preferred a program with fewer than eight categories to give students more leeway for electives...
Elia Roldan had just received a new lab coat with her name embroidered on the pocket. She worked as a dermatological assistant and although her doctor's office was struggling - fewer people are getting Botoxed these days - her boss assured her that everything was fine. But that was a month ago. Now she is at Manhattan's Tompkins Square Park at 2 pm on a Tuesday, tossing an office telephone down a measured runway in the very first, and possibly only, Unemployment Olympics. "It's not like I have anywhere I have to be," she says, "I mean, not anymore...