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...recession affected your team? Without a doubt, it has affected all teams. We have a long-term relationship with General Motors, and their restructuring certainly effected our organization. Kellogg's is not coming back to [sponsor] our team. We've had a bunch of smaller sponsors reduce what they're doing. But it's nice to see [the economy] coming back. Lowes [sponsor of Johnson's car] re-signed with us recently to extend our relationship. I think that shows how big a tool our sport is for the marketing plans of corporate America. (Read how NASCAR is trying...
...United Arab Emirates promised on Sunday to stand behind the country's banks with fresh liquidity, causing stock markets in Asia to rebound on Monday. Nevertheless, the Dubai debacle is just the kind of dangerous unknown that can still arise out of the financial crisis, even while a general recovery is under way. Financial crises change the rules of the game, especially when it comes to determining how money flows, and where and to whom. Perceptions of risk among bankers and investors can change - but the ramifications of that change are often delayed, and not easy to predict...
...summer of 2008, Jay Harris, also a professor of Jewish studies and chair of the General Education Committee, was named Dean of Undergraduate Education by Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds. By June, the pair will have been in their posts for seven years...
...impact of Bild's revelations came swiftly. Addressing Germany's parliament, which was about to begin debating a one-year extension of Germany's deployment of around 4,300 troops, zu Guttenberg told deputies that Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Inspector-General and head of Germany's armed forces since 2002, and long-serving state secretary Peter Wichert, a senior official at Germany's defense department, had taken responsibility for the breakdown in communications and resigned. Jung initially defended his actions but resigned Friday. (See pictures of the history of the Berlin Wall...
...uproar in parliament and in the media overshadowed a visit to Berlin by the General Secretary of NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who was in town to make the case for increased efforts by European allies in Afghanistan. Chancellor Angela Merkel, at a press conference with Rasmussen, criticized the handling of the affair, saying: "If we want trust, we also have to have full transparency." Rasmussen pleaded that it was of the "utmost importance that an American announcement of an increased troop number in Afghanistan is followed by additional troop contributions from other allies." But that's likely to fall...