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...outlook is dire for both automakers. Chrysler, as a private company, doesn't release quarterly financial information but it has confirmed that it lost $1.9 billion in 2007. (The German corporation Daimler, which still owns 19.9% of Chrysler said the American carmaker lost $510 in the first quarter of 2008.) GM lost $15.5 billion in the second quarter and is expected to post additional losses when it reports its third quarter results at the end of October...
...took a pummeling as they announced losses on their investments, particularly in the distressed mortgage sector. And the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that the two companies had discussed merging, though the talks had not produced an agreement. Analysts for the credit rating company A.M. Best have downgraded their outlook for insurance companies, but they say the companies have weathered the financial crisis better than banks and investment houses so far. While warning that "nobody is immune" in such a dismal financial market, analyst Tom Rosendale says customers aren't facing an immediate collapse of the major insurance companies...
...interested in learning about.” The sharp contrast between his child-like tone and the adult matters he confronts effectively gives the reader the impression of Pat’s mental instability. The simplicity of expression reflects an equal simplicity of character. Pat’s dominating outlook on life is that there is a silver lining to everything—a cliché remark that recurs throughout the entire novel. He expects his life to turn out like a movie with a happy ending and is enraged by anything that threatens to prevent this from happening...
...Obama looks will not, of course, determine how he would govern if elected. Because he spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, and because he appears international in outlook, some Asians have high hopes for an Obama presidency. The thoughtful Malaysian commentator Karim Raslan warns, however, that Obama could prove disappointing to even those Asians who like him. "There's this idea that Obama will be a transformational figure, a leader of the world," says Karim. "But he's a Democrat, and Democrats have traditionally pushed protectionism and human rights, issues uncomfortable for Asia. Obama's key constituency...
...league’s teams themselves are changing their outlook. There have been several efforts in recent years to schedule some lower-level Division I-A opponents by Ivy schools; Harvard briefly had Army on the schedule before the Black Knights entered Conference USA and had to remove the game. Yale had Army scheduled for 2010 and 2012, though those games are no longer listed in the schedule for the Bulldogs (Army’s sports information department claims those scheduled games were always unofficial and declined to comment on why they were no longer listed). The odds of getting...