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...savings of about $2.5 billion a year--enough for GM to fund a new car program and a more efficient engine every year. "With the health-care burden gone, GM becomes a much more competitive company," says David Cole, chairman of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich...
Andrew Plague, Sterling Heights, Mich...
Although Harvard’s coffers seem to be overflowing this year, as the endowment approaches $35 billion, a new bill proposed by Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., may allow the cache to accumulate even faster. The bill would allow tax-exempt organizations—a category that includes university endowments—to invest directly in U.S. hedge funds while retaining their freedom from Internal Revenue Service dues on leveraged investments. “[Universities] are currently taxed as though they are leveraging, when it’s actually the hedge fund’s strategy...
...biggest star was Elvis, who had "died" two year before WWN was born. The weekly ran frequent stories about the singer ("Painting of Elvis Weeps Real Tears"), but its greatest news coup, and its top-selling issue, was the one that announced Presley was alive in a Kalamazoo, Mich., hideout. WWN's explanation of his 1977 disappearance - what was reported as his death - was typically ingenious. Building on the fact that Elvis had a twin brother Jesse who died at birth, WWN claimed that Jesse had in fact survived, brain damaged and hidden away, and that when Jesse died...
...restrain ourselves when it comes to Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Give them an opportunity to succeed unhindered. Unless, of course, we are afraid they might succeed, which would indicate that there are systems out there at least as capable as our own. David G. McGrady, Muskegon, Mich...