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...Intense opposition from ordinary union members also delayed for several months a settlement with the bankrupt Delphi Corp., the component maker spun off by GM. The tussle with the union contributed significantly to Delphi's inability to put together a plan to emerge from bankruptcy ahead of the credit crunch...
...Scrabble has been translated into 22 languages, from Arabic to Afrikaans. Oddly, the game is sold outside the U.S. by Hasbro's rival, Mattel Inc. By the early 1990s, thanks to its acquisitions of Milton Bradley (maker of Life, Yahtzee and Candy Land) and Parker Brothers (Monopoly, Risk and Trivial Pursuit), Hasbro owned more than half of the $1.1 billion U.S. games market. But in 1993, Mattel outbid Hasbro, paying $90 million for the international rights to the game. Hence the game's weirdly bifurcated homepage at Scrabble.com...
...Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle and her state's largest utility endorsed plans to build more than 70,000 recharging stations for electric vehicles by 2012. The project, expected to cost upwards of $70 million, calls for a public-private partnership with the California-based battery maker Better Place, which will build the stations and supply batteries to those who choose to buy or lease an electric car. Lingle hailed the plan as a major step in curbing emissions and rising energy costs. The state needs to do something; it spends nearly $7 billion each year on imported oil. Better Place...
...linking baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and washing machines? When were you ever told, "It's not just your flat-screen TV. It's your freedom"? This is not an argument for the bailout. But it is to say that when the country turns away from you as the maker of a symbol--well, it feels personal...
...Grand Rapids, Mich. to Jackson, Miss.? That will only involve an entire day shoehorned into "regional" jets apparently made in a region where all the people are 4 ft. 6. It was the reduced service to secondary markets that prompted some corporations to take action. Toilet-paper and Kleenex maker Kimberly-Clark, for instance, created an airline, Midwest Express, in 1984 partly to compensate for the lack of service in Neenah, Wis. (its headquarters at the time) and to optimize the use of its owned or chartered planes. Midwest Express quickly became known for top-rated service, unsurprising coming from...