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...marketplace of consumers finally ready to spend money on new cars. GM's executives aren't entirely off base in thinking that pent-up demand is building, because it is. "Assuming general economic recovery, in the developed markets we will see maybe 95% of what it had been," says John Paul MacDuffie, an associate professor of management and co-director of the International Motor Vehicle Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. U.S. auto and light-truck sales topped 16 million for eight years and reached nearly 17 million in 2004 and 2005. Those numbers have slumped...
...original version of this story failed to note that John Paul MacDuffie is co-director of the International Motor Vehicle Program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania...
Microelectronics Corporation have already gone back to normal hours, and the Hsinchu Science Park Administration predicts that only around 25% of hi-tech park professionals will be on forced leave in April. Back in London, John Philpott, the public-policy director of a lobby group called the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development, sees the rise of short-work programs and pay cuts in industry as a natural reaction to the crisis. In the case of accountants KPMG, he says, "if you have a highly skilled workforce that you don't want to lose, it can make...
...university administration has acted quickly in its own defense. The president, Fr. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., has described Obama’s “visit as a basis for further positive engagement,” and not as “support [for] all of his positions.” And Douglas W. Kmiec, Obama’s most ostentatious Catholic booster during the election, panegyrized the President as a real “fightin’ Irish,” like Notre Dame, “when it comes to working for social justice.” American...
...eagerly watching British media sputtered when the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, briefly put her hand on the back of Queen Elizabeth II as the two chatted at a reception. Etiquette is quite stern about this ("Whatever you do, don't touch the Queen!"). In 2000 John Howard, then Prime Minister of Australia, got plenty of criticism for apparently putting his arm around the Queen to direct her through a crowd. He denied actually touching her, but photographs suggest that he came quite close. (Another former Australian Prime Minister did put his hand on the Queen...