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...sound like they would have made for good television as well. (Sadly, the antics were not taped.) Ever confident, Martinez describes the behind-the-scenes tension between himself and the Stanford engineering student, which manifested itself only in strained high-fives on camera.“We made a pact to not let it show up in the show,” he says. “We got all of our bad blood out of the way outside of the show.”In an episode where “tail” puns?...
...years after Hitler was defeated. Instead, faced with the need to protect weakened Western democracies, the U.S. would embark on the Marshall Plan, a bid to make Europeans prosperous enough fast enough to keep them from turning communist, and initiate NATO, its first transatlantic alliance since its 18th century pact with France...
Another legacy of GM's pact with theunion is its crushing pension burden. Having shed so many workers in previous rounds of cost cutting, GM finds itself in a demographic choke hold--paying for the pensions and health care of 400,000 retirees (plus benefits for their dependents)--with a shrinking company. GM's strongest rivals, such as Toyota and Nissan, haven't gone through decades of downsizing and don't bear that lopsided burden. At GM, each U.S. worker's production has to support 2.5 retirees, adding an average of $2,200 in legacy costs to the price...
...concentration camps and homosexuals to mental asylums, and women were not allowed to work without the permission of their husbands or fathers. Speaking out - for democracy or against the regime - was hazardous to your health. Even after Franco's death in 1975, parties across the political spectrum maintained a "pact of silence" about the Civil War and decades of dictatorship to ensure, they said, a peaceful transition to representative government. But after watching their democracy survive tests ranging from the legalization of divorce to the Madrid bombings, Spaniards are ready to break that silence. And the Valley of the Fallen...
...Summit of the Americas wasn't a total loss. Yes, the group of 34 nations didn't agree on a trading pact, a vision of Bush's Free Trade Agreement of the America. But they did agree to keep working, and that was a defeat for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who vowed to bury the FTAA at this meeting...