Word: move
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...polished, fast-paced racing game with high-end graphics, and I happen to have played a lot of it. With Project Natal, instead of using a joystick, you steer by holding your hands up in the air like you're gripping a steering wheel. To hit the gas, you move your foot forward along the floor. To brake, you move it back. To trigger the turbo boost, you do a gear-shifting, fist-pumping movement with your right arm. Awesome...
...White House officials said GM's pension funds will move over to the new GM. But some of the automaker's salaried retirees fear that, since they don't have a union, GM might not make their concerns a priority. Consequently, they have retained lawyers to force GM to ensure that their claims involving benefits and pensions are lodged with the new company...
...list, even though it is only partially occupied now, is GM's riverfront headquarters in downtown Detroit, a city that's now world famous for its industrial ruins. The Obama Administration has decreed the headquarters will stay downtown - at least for now - rather than move to vacant space at the GM Technical Center in suburban Warren. (Watch an interview with Ford CEO Alan Mulally...
...planned to close even more plants, but the United Auto Workers prevailed on the Treasury Department to idle three other plants but move them over to the new GM. The company had based its latest round of plant closings on the assumption that U.S. car sales will only reach 10 million now and stay at that level in the future. However, union leaders argued that GM should keep the plants as a hedge against a robust recovery in new vehicle sales, possibly next year or the year after. "We know they're not going to [be at] 10 million units...
...there are sure to be times when Franken's vote will make a difference. And not always in ways that will ease Senate majority leader Harry Reid's burden. Franken, for example, was a vocal opponent of the bank-bailout plan and could try to move the planned reregulation of Wall Street to the left. Still, Senate Democrats will benefit from having one more friendly face in the chamber - and one less Republican arm to twist. "It's one more vote," Dick Durbin said with a beleaguered laugh when asked last week about the difference Franken might make...