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...people unwilling or unable to buy on credit. A large chain near New York credited the region's unseasonably cold weather for relatively decent sales of outdoor and winter apparel in November, while the only retailer to report an increase in sales in the Fourth District, which includes Ohio and Kentucky, was a national discount chain. A domestic car dealer in West Virginia told the Fed his average sales have gone from 250 cars per month to just six in November...
...Benevolent Manufacturing State achieved its full glory in the postwar period, a largely supply-driven era when Detroit could sell almost everything it made and could afford to give the United Auto Workers (UAW) most of what it wanted. From Linden, N.J., to Lorain, Ohio, to Long Beach, Calif., to be an autoworker was to have it made; to be an auto executive was to have made it. Detroit, says John Plant, the thoughtful CEO of partsmaker TRW, was about more than just industry: "It's the largest experiment of social re-engineering that any country has ever undertaken...
...alone a district with 46,000 students that ranks last in math among 11 urban school systems. When Fenty called her, she was running a nonprofit called the New Teacher Project, which helps schools recruit good teachers. Most problematic of all, Rhee is not from Washington. She is from Ohio, and she is Korean American in a majority-African-American city. "I was," she says now, "the worst pick on the face of the earth...
Rhee grew up in a nice neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio, a middle child, between two brothers. Her parents immigrated from South Korea several years before she was born so that her father could study medicine at the University of Michigan. He became a specialist in rehabilitation and pain medicine, and her mother owned a women's clothing store. Education was highly valued in the family, as was independence. After Rhee finished sixth grade, her parents sent her to South Korea to live with an aunt and attend a Korean school, a harrowing experience for a child in a strange land...
...Certainly Michigan Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow - along with three of their colleagues from other states whose economies depend on the auto industry, including Republicans Kit Bond of Missouri and George Voinovich of Ohio - felt their plan was sufficient. At a much subdued press conference held right after Reid and Pelosi's wrapped up, they unveiled their compromise, which would pull the $25 billion from a fund approved earlier this year to help the auto industry develop more fuel-efficient cars; that notion had actually been pushed by Republicans earlier in the week, but until Thursday, Democrats had contended...