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...like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times. My shout. Know what I mean?" -A line from her 1990 poem Poet for our Times...
...There is still a small chance that Chrysler could be forced into liquidation. Creditors may be able to convince a judge that all parties involved would do better if Jeep could be sold to Toyota (TM) and Dodge to VW. If that were to happen, it would not necessarily mean many lost jobs. Any firm that buys a car company's assets still needs people to operate the assembly plants and design the cars. The jobs lost in liquidation might actually be fairly small...
...years. “They always seem to be translations of mine,” he says of past productions. The latest of these productions is “Léonie est en avance ou le mal joli”—translated by Shapiro to mean “The Pregnant Pause or Love’s Labor Lost” —an obscure 1911 one-act farce written by French playwright Georges Feydeau. During Europe’s “Golden Age,” also known as the Belle Époque...
...release a communication plan detailing the $77 million of cost-reduction measures to be implemented over the next year. But for now, department leaders have expressed confusion regarding Smith’s call to restructure FAS.“I don’t know what on earth he means [by restructuring],” said English professor W. James Simpson. “Does it mean cutting certain programs? I’m worried that decisions of that kind will be extremely grave decisions that would be very disruptive.”John M. Duffy, chair of the classics...
...Conference Board's consumer confidence index rose in April by the most since 2005, signaling that American shoppers might be ready to start buying again. The U.S. government also revealed in late April that inventories in the U.S. fell by a record amount in the first quarter, which could mean inventories have been reduced so much that companies will have to start placing more orders to replenish them. That could spur Asian production and exports...