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...already well ahead in the opinion polls. Opel employs 25,000 workers in Germany - around half of GM Europe's total workforce. German unions threatened mass demonstrations if GM decided to keep Opel, fearing that option would lead to thousands of job losses in Germany. With the green light for Magna, Merkel has received an important psychological boost and can now tell voters on the campaign trail that she managed to save German jobs...
Some industry experts now wonder if the Hershey Trust will rethink its stand in light of the Kraft bid. After all, if Kraft ups its ante and succeeds in acquiring Cadbury, it would create a combined company that would rival Mars in size and reduce Hershey to a distant fourth in the confectionary market with only a 4% stake, estimates Stifel Nicolaus analyst Christopher Growe...
...ingenuity. Volpi draws heavily from a repository of borrowed metaphors and personifications–riding on Conrad’s coattails to describe humans “embarking on a trip into the heart of darkness” is not quite so entrancing the second time around. Especially in light of Volpi’s notable ability to transition rather effortlessly between assuming the colloquialisms of post-Communist Russia and the jargon of American capitalism, one wonders why an author with such a nuanced command of language would resort to clichés so elementary in composition. Volpi rounds...
...college students in the program, Barth, a Neurobiology concentrator, spent 10 weeks trying to map specific neural circuits in Bengalese finches—information that researchers hope could one day shed light on how humans process speech...
...Death of Auto-Tune).” Throwing down the gauntlet to a burgeoning generation of indistinguishably mechanized MCs, Jay holds no punches, rattling off a list of rap game faux pas: “You boys’ jeans too tight / your colors too bright / your voice too light.” Dangling his past commercial successes before these young wannabes, Jay-Z taunts, “I know we facing a recession / but the music y’all making gonna make it the Great Depression.”It’s been over a decade since...