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...develop breast cancer are struck by a type that is partly stimulated by exposure to estrogen. This is one reason the disease usually hits in middle age, after 25 or so years of the monthly hormonal surges associated with ovulation and menstruation. Since the cancer relies on estrogen to grow, drugs like tamoxifen and Herceptin, which block hormone receptors on malignant cells, can help starve the disease...
...According to Martin, who chairs the Standing Committee on Women, the problem lies in the nature of the process at hand. “I think that it’s inevitable that you can’t grow really fast in very short period of time,” she says. “In FAS we probably don’t have more than about 20 searches in a given year. Unless there’s some dramatic growth in size over a short period of time, there isn’t room to make rapid change...
...increasingly a liability as U.S. market growth has slowed, and competition from imports is revving up. Indeed, Chrysler's first half domestic sales were down 2.3% from 2006, a year in which it posted a $1.5 billion loss. "Given how competitive the U.S. market has become, for us to grow, we need to address that balance," says Michael Manley, the Detroit-based executive vice president who is steering Chrysler's international efforts...
...many dealerships. So the company is continuing to close some while increasing the number of its foreign outlets. The automaker has around 5,250 dealers, about a quarter of them overseas. Manley says the total number of dealerships will remain static, but the share of foreign showrooms will grow...
Perhaps worst of all, we let international students use their funny accents and sob stories about not being able to go home for Thanksgiving as leverage, stealing the finance jobs that ought to go to good, wholesome Americans. While uppity Argentines grow the United States’ economy from behind their desks at Goldman Sachs, the native sons whose jobs they’ve stolen are forced into dependence on their trust funds years before their time. All the while, the foreign pretenders talk to each other in languages other than English, knowing full well that no self-respecting American...