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...That's not how many older Americans think of Fiat, the chronically unreliable cars of Boomers' college years. Though Fiat is an acronym for Fabrica Italiana Automobili Torino (Italian Car Factory of Turin), many older Americans joke that it really stands for Fix It Again Tony. Plagued by chronic breakdowns, Fiat left the American market in 1983 with it's reputation badly tarnished. But Fiat underwent its own transformation after Sergio Marchionne became CEO of the automaker in 2004 and ushered in new talent and technology. Though facing its own financial troubles, the Italian automaker has since been impressing consumers...
Once again, SEF is a wonderful program that immensely improves the college experience of many financial-aid students. This suggestion is merely intended to smooth a kink that exists in the SEF procedure. With a simple fix, I think it is possible for everyone...
...career, thanks to a shoulder injury he suffered during his last year at Brown. Kantrovitz had minor surgery “as sort of a Band-Aid approach” to get him through his senior season. Once in the minors, he had another operation to try and fix the shoulder permanently, but the pain lingered and, while he could hit, his play in the field was severely hindered.“A 5’8 [designated hitter] in the National League is not going to work a whole lot,” Kantrovitz says...
...talk about Wall Street. Is there anything the government should be doing to fix the economic crisis...
...government can't fix the crisis. Everything the government's tried for the past two years has been wrong. That's why the crisis continues. The idea that you can solve a problem of too much debt and too much consumption with more debt and more consumption is ludicrous on its face. What they should have done is just let everybody go bankrupt, let the bankruptcy courts reorganize everything. The Japanese tried this approach of propping up zombie banks and zombie companies; it did not work. And it's not going to work in America either...