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...fearful despite the $2 trillion plan announced by the 15 eurozone countries to buck up banks and credit systems. "We should stop looking at stock market activity the way a mouse watches a cat, and start thinking in the medium-term," the Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Paul Juncker told German radio Deutschlandfunk. Belying his own maxim, however, Juncker suggested additional efforts European governments may be planning to make should "impress the financial markets...
...Eisenach, Germany Great historic forces once spread from Eisenach, where Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German to drive the Reformation. Today, this town of 40,000 is notable for the more prosaic fact that it's at the receiving end of a chilling secular influence: slowing demand for automobiles. Opel, a European subsidiary of the beleaguered American giant General Motors, is the town's biggest employer - and when Opel's in trouble, so is Eisenach...
...uncertainty that Huber and other autoworkers feel is spreading. While an organ grinder plays German folk songs in the street outside, Lilian Arndt, 51, is tying up a bouquet in her tiny flower shop. She has never seen Wall Street, but she is feeling the fallout from the global crisis that began in the U.S. "The situation is frightening and we just don't know how bad it will get," she says. "People order smaller bouquets. The hotels still order arrangements. And there are funerals, of course. But for many people, flowers have become a luxury." Eisenach faces the unsettling...
...voice cast heavy on Latino talent has helped make the movie a particular hit with Hispanics. George Lopez plays Papi, a Chihuahua next door with a crush on Chloe; Andy Garcia is Delgado, a German shepherd with a shadowy past; and Edward James Olmos, Paul Rodriguez, Placido Domingo, Luis Guzman and Cheech Marin voice other key roles...
...with huge financial assistance, Tuesday's repeat came as those measures were backed up by actual figures in both Europe and the U.S. In Paris on Monday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged $488 billion to underwrite loans between banks and inject capital into troubled banks and financial groups. Similarly, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said up to $651 billion would be used for similar uses - though primarily limited to underwriting lending between banks. Austria, Spain and the Netherlands weighed in with similar plans under a coordinated euro-zone strategy that some analysts have pegged as adding up to as much...