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...buzz is being generated by muscle cars or luxury of the "if you have to ask, you can't afford it" variety. Crowds also gathered around cars made by a company largely unknown outside of China, the Shenzhen-based firm BYD (Build Your Dreams). Started as a rechargeable-battery maker, BYD is making a headlong push to become a world leader in what some analysts believe could be the industry's post-internal combustion engine future: electric cars. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
Intel (INTC), which is the largest maker of PC and server chips in the world, announced earnings that beat analyst expectations. No one would have known that by looking at the collapse of the share price. The company, which has about 80% of the market for the main processors used in personal computers, is considered a bellwether for how hardware firms like Dell (DELL) and HP (HPQ) will do. Intel's figures are considered predictive of the strength of the sales of Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows...
...still make it as a public company because a bankruptcy could be too messy for the Administration's tastes. According to The Wall Street Journal, "Key members of an ad hoc committee representing GM bondholders have begun preparing arguments against the auto maker's bankruptcy plan." The creditors may lose their attempt to get a better deal than being given debt in a company which holds the worst part of the GM asset base, but they can make the process prolonged and painful for the company and the Treasury. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...before Easter and housewife Laure Bertini walks the aisles of the Manor supermarket in downtown Geneva, looking for holiday treats. "Chocolate will always be at the top of my shopping list, regardless of the economy," she says, filling her cart with gold-foil-wrapped chocolate bunnies from the Swiss maker Lindt...
Born in Lyons, France, in 1924, Jarre made his way to Paris after the war and contributed incidental music to theater pieces. In 1951, Georges Franju, maker of uncompromising documentaries, hired Jarre to score Hôtel des Invalides, his study of wounded veterans; it was the first of many Jarre pieces (The Longest Day, The Train, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) that found a sepulchral undertone in martial music. Old masters like William Wyler (The Collector) and Alfred Hitchcock (Topaz) and Young Turks like Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction) and Jerry Zucker (Ghost) called on Jarre to provide music that was subtle...