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...sudden consensus on food-safety reform isn't necessarily the result of principled legislators standing up to moneyed interests. On the contrary, industry powers like the Grocery Manufacturers Association now support the new oversight, which reflects corporate anxiety over the volatile current system and a recognition that they need a government imprimatur to establish credibility with consumers. Peanut-butter manufacturers, after all, saw sales decline 13% in the wake of the salmonella outbreak, according to the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The spinach industry lost more than $350 million after a wave of E. coli infections linked...
...principle shareholders of any new GM - the U.S. Treasury, Canada's federal government and the United Auto Workers (UAW) - are keenly interested in getting GM stock back into circulation. "There is a lot of interest from the future stakeholders ... to start the process of selling down the shares. All agree that it's important to make General Motors a publicly traded company," says Ray Young, GM's chief financial officer. The earliest it would happen, Young projects, is around the first or second quarter of 2010. (See pictures of the remains of Detroit...
...same faculty member said Minow in many ways resembles Kagan when she ascended to the Deanship—exhibiting a disregard for political ideology, an interest in others’ work, and a deep concern for the Law School...
...does al-Qaeda. It is vital for the government to have a relationship with the U.S. We do not live on an isolated island. We need to be assisted to rebuild the country and recover from civil war. Any assistance to Somalia, any relations that are serving the interest of the people, is not shameful. It is progress...
...that raises an interesting question: Why would we think that a debt-to-income ratio of 100% is sustainable? Well, for one thing, the economy has ostensibly evolved since the 1950s, and even since the 1980s. Advancements like securitized lending seem to have created a system in which interest rates are lower and consumers are able to shoulder more debt than they once were. The percentage of income that goes toward paying interest on debt went from 11% at the beginning of 1980 to 14% at the beginning of 2008, a much smaller jump than the increase in gross amount...