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...when the outgoing Bush Administration threw it a short-term loan and told the company that it had until March 31 to come up with a plan for its long-term survival. It did - but its strategy was premised on projections that car sales would begin to pick up this year after last year's dismal industry performance, in which sales sank 18%, to 13.2 million units. But the pickup hasn't happened yet, and analysts see the industry's production "run rate" at or below 9 million units. (Read about Detroit's efforts to reinvent itself...
...pick up any motherhood dos and don'ts from your roles in movies like Mean Girls or Baby Mama? -Michelle Rotuno-Johnson, Cincinnati, Ohio I think I would be in real trouble if I learned mothering tips from either of those movies. There was a joke in Baby Mama where there was a stroller that, when it hit something, little air bags would come out. I do want one of those...
...comments were filled with economic jargon but pregnant with meaning. "If there's going to be renewed growth, it can't just be the United States as the engine. Everybody is going to have to pick up the pace," Obama continued. He went on to say that the world would have to shift away from the situation where other nations are "only exporting and never importing" to a "balance in how we approach these issues...
...country on authoritarian lines, ruling by decree. One of those edicts led to forced sterilization to deal with India's then huge population growth rate. Varun Gandhi allegedly referred to it in his virulent rallies in the first week of March by saying that the BJP "need to pick them [Muslims] up, one by one, and sterilize them...
...rigorous survey of astrophysics—addressing “everything from black holes to the Big Bang,” according to Charbonneau.The department will also offer a secondary field next year for students interested in astrophysics who do not wish to make the subject their primary concentration. PICK AND CHOOSEThe department has fashioned three new upper level courses and an observational course to give students maximum flexibility in choosing the courses they find most appealing.Astronomy 110: “Exoplanets” is for those interested in “how astronomers are finding planets and look...