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Toyoda's appearance is the culmination of a month of unrelenting bad news for the company. On the eve of the hearings, a damaging July 2009 memo emerged in which Toyota execs boasted of $100 million in savings garnered through a limited 2007 recall. The company also announced that it had been subpoenaed by both the Securities and Exchange Commission and a federal grand jury in New York because of the sudden-acceleration issues. Toyoda vowed to "work vigorously and unceasingly to restore the trust of our customers." But he has a long ride ahead...
That will prove difficult. For the last month, farmers have driven their tractors along Greece's highways to protest plans to cut subsidies. Even the government's tax collectors walked out for a day, and on Feb. 10, state employees paralyzed the country for 24 hours. A long season of more strikes is almost a certainty...
With unemployment at nearly 10% nationwide, the Senate voted 70 to 28 in favor of a $15 billion bill to help create jobs. While it's a victory for Senate Democrats--particularly majority leader Harry Reid, who scrapped a bipartisan draft earlier this month--the bill still has to pass the House or be reconciled with the lower chamber's $154 billion version, approved in December. Reid hopes to push through a series of small jobs-related bills like this one, which includes temporary tax breaks for companies hiring employees and support for highway-construction programs...
...member drafting committee spent the last month revising their recommendations after delegates voted to postpone a final vote at the previous session...
...What we’ve tried to do is not to take what students would experience but try to be more efficient internally,” she said in an interview last month...