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...United Auto Workers prevailed on the Treasury Department to idle three other plants but move them over to the new GM. The company had based its latest round of plant closings on the assumption that U.S. car sales will only reach 10 million now and stay at that level in the future. However, union leaders argued that GM should keep the plants as a hedge against a robust recovery in new vehicle sales, possibly next year or the year after. "We know they're not going to [be at] 10 million units forever," said UAW vice president Cal Rapson...
...Falcone still has doubts about his level of dedication to the game as an undergraduate...
...reforms also included a plan to introduce merit pay in up to 150 school districts. Merit pay incentivizes good teaching and has great potential to improve underperforming schools. In many professions, a higher level of performance is rewarded with a higher level of pay, and teaching should be no exception. New York City’s Chancellor of Schools, Joel I. Klein, has already instituted a modified version of merit pay: The district gave $14.2 million in bonuses to schools that improved their performance in the 2007-2008 school year. A more effective system would be a hybrid model...
President Obama is searching for yet another White House czar to tackle a pressing public concern - and this time it's personal. On May 29 Obama announced a high-level initiative to address the growing problem of computer attacks - against the government, corporations and individuals - by coordinating the various efforts to fight hackers and other computer criminals under the direction of a coordinator already dubbed the "cyber czar." (Read "Those Crazy Internet Security Questions...
...Very safe," Geithner quickly reassured the student questioner, as the audience laughed. Despite the surge in spending to deal with the financial crisis, the Obama Administration is committed to getting the fiscal deficit back down to a level that "is sustainable over the medium term," Geithner said...