Word: globalization
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...With profits still elusive, one of the criteria for judging success used by Whitacre is market share, and by that measure, GM did improve in the third quarter, as its global share increased to 11.9%, up 0.3 percentage points from the first half of the year. "I took the job with a serious level of skepticism," Whitacre noted in a recent speech in Texas. "Some five months later, I am very pleased to report that my skepticism is giving way to optimism, little by little, day by day. We are much better positioned for success than I thought possible...
...bill's loudest supporters is a charismatic pastor, Martin Ssempa, who heads a Ugandan campus AIDS eradication organization that is funded in part by the U.S. and who was associated with the global outreach of Southern California's Saddleback Church, run by Rick Warren, author of best-selling book The Purpose Driven Life. Ssempa has a penchant for burning condoms. In 2007, he organized a rally against homosexuality to protest "homosexual agents and activists" who were "infiltrating Uganda." Asked how the anti-homosexuality bill might affect the fight against HIV and AIDS, Ssempa seemed bemused. "I don't see what...
...statement, Warren sought to clear up other matters that have emerged amid the Ugandan bill controversy. He denied knowing Scott Lively, the conservative California preacher whose writings about a global gay agenda to dominate the world have inspired much of Uganda's anti-gay movement. (Lively denounced the Uganda bill last week, saying it went...
...Uganda. Among the recipients was Ssempa's Campus Alliance to Wipe Out AIDS, which runs abstinence programs. The Campus Alliance is a subpartner of the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda, which got $15 million from PEPFAR. Meanwhile, Langa's Family Life Network has received money from the U.N.-backed Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, an organization principally financed by contributions from the U.S. and Western European nations. Despite the controversy over the bill, churches that publicly support the legislation have received funding from PEPFAR and the Global Fund...
...embassy has denounced the bill. And the Global Fund's official line on it is that excluding marginalized groups would compromise efforts to stop the spread of AIDS. Fund spokesman Andre Hurst said his organization was working out a new strategy that would allow groups facing discrimination to bypass normal channels and seek funding directly from the body. He had no immediate comment on why fund money went to Langa's Family Life Network...