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...headquartered in Detroit and employs more than 53,000 people in Michigan, but in the corporate-bankruptcy system, courts compete for cases - especially big ones - so the company could easily wind up at a courthouse hundreds of miles away. Likely venues include Wilmington, Del., the state in which GM is incorporated, and New York City, which has a history of landing large out-of-town cases, such as those involving WorldCom and Enron. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...bankruptcy court in eastern Michigan, though, is determined to do what it can to land a possible GM bankruptcy, as well as a potential Chrysler case. In December the court's six judges signed off on new rules that, among other things, allow the chief judge to divvy up the workload of a "very large, complex case of national significance" to keep such a bankruptcy running smoothly and quickly...
...soft-spoken University of Michigan sociology professor and survey expert, Groves, 60, has stepped straight into the firing line in the decennial battle over the national Census - the tally used to distribute congressional seats and tax dollars. The most contentious issue: whether to rely on mathematical sampling in addition to old-fashioned, one-at-a-time counting to measure the country's population. Many experts say sampling yields more accurate results than an individual count, especially among those hardest to reach, such as the homeless and the poor. As a rule, though, Republicans grow queasy at seeing the words Census...
...Originally from Kansas City. Earned a bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Dartmouth College, followed by master's degrees in statistics and sociology and a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan...
...Joined the University of Michigan's Sociology Department in 1975. Has also taught at the University of Maryland and at schools in Sweden and Germany...