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...happy about the task force's approach. The UAW feels particularly aggrieved because it has agreed to an unending series of givebacks over the past 20 years. Even before this latest crisis, the UAW had assented to the 2007 contract, which would have put Detroit's labor cost per car within a couple of hundred dollars of Toyota's and the other transplants'. That isn't enough, in the view of the task force, because consumers are willing to pay more for the foreign badges, and the Detroit Three need to earn more on domestic car sales to become viable...
...That's particularly important because the number of drivers is increasing. The U.S. population is advancing at a clip of 1% per year. But more important, the baby-boom echo is getting its wheels. Between immigration and the offspring of boomers now asking for the car keys, at least 2 million new drivers are entering the market every year. That invariably adds to demand...
...pickup and in a global restructuring that will bring the best products from its overseas operations to the U.S. If there are new labor contracts in place, the domestic automakers also stand to be cost-competitive with the transplants, which will translate to more profit per car, even if selling smaller cars means fewer sales dollars...
...cervical cancer prevention programs off the ground in the developing world and among lower-income women, Sankaranarayanan says. Indeed, the current standard in HPV tests, the Hybrid Capture II, which was used for this study, is already too costly for wide-scale application, running as much as $30 per test. Realistically, in order to be used on a grand scale, tests would have to cost about $1 each, Sankaranarayanan estimates...
...between 1996 and 2005. She and her team essentially conducted two trials. In one, the scientists looked at patients who chose to initiate ART when their level of CD4 cells - infection-fighting immune cells that HIV uses to replicate and then systematically destroys - ranged between 351 and 500 cells per cubic mm of blood. These patients were compared with those who decided to defer therapy until their counts dipped below 350 cells per cubic mm, the level at which current guidelines recommend starting drug treatment...