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...when the city's auto-manufacturing industry was red-hot. Today, the building's cavernous ground-floor retail space is almost empty. As the rising dollar made Canadian products more expensive around the world, Canada shed nearly 100,000 manufacturing jobs in 12 months. "We went from [being] the lowest-cost producer of vehicles around the world for GM, Ford and Chrysler to probably one of the highest," says Buzz Hargrove, president of the Canadian Auto Workers Union...
...same can't be said of their administration of the country. Their appointed government of mostly elderly bureaucrats has been criticized as slow-moving and inept. A Muslim insurgency in the south rages on, the economy is mired in doldrums - Thailand's 4.3% growth for 2007 is the lowest in the region - and the government's failure to spend heavily in the provinces has left the rural poor longing for Thaksin and his populism. That's why Samak is playing the Thaksin card. The two men are strange bedfellows - they were once political rivals - but now each needs the other...
According to the study thus far, race and gender appear to have an influence on social networks. African-American students tend to have the largest social networks, followed by students of mixed race. White students have the lowest number of Facebook friends, and women are more inclined to have a more diverse social network than males...
Difficulty rose to 2.7 in 2005. And after earning a 3.5 for difficulty in 2006—above that semester’s mean—this year’s enrollment has dropped to the lowest level since 2000, the first year the course was offered...
...seat!”) was meant to be funny, but I’m sure to the 30 people that showed up, it was hilarious. The problem is not, however, that attendance was low, or that this year only 2,181 people voted in the UC presidential election, the lowest turnout in the Council’s recorded history. The reason more than 60 percent of the student body didn’t vote was not because we’re lazy, too busy, or apathetic, but because it didn’t make a difference to us who won.The...