Word: plantes
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...real and important," says Rodney Fort, a University of Michigan economist who also specializes in sports. "It's just not permanent." Beyond dollars, we shouldn't discount the intangible perks a major sports event delivers to a city. Detroit families can discuss the big game instead of the plant closing, maybe catch a free concert downtown. And though Michigan State's run may cost the state some extra cash, a national championship will lift the state's spirits, and who's to say a few hours of celebratory hysteria are worth less than a few bucks from out-of-towners...
...Millions of car buyers won't consider U.S. brands for some time to come; the perception that they are inferior lingers long beyond the reality that they are not. And foreign competition may increase: companies in Asia, such as China's Chery Automobile and India's Tata Motors, could plant their flags here. Established players like Volkswagen and Hyundai-Kia have plans to build plants in the U.S. by 2012. Which means the sales rate will be exceeded by manufacturing capacity, as it always...
...York City's southeastern corner - is already vulnerable to storm surges and floods. Global warming, with its rising seas and harder rain, will only intensify those threats. That's what has Vincent Sapienza, the city's assistant commissioner for wastewater treatment, so worried. The Rockaway Wastewater Treatment Plant, which processes 25 million gal. (95,000 cu m) of sewage a day, sits next to the beach, and its pumps are below sea level. In a major flood, parts of the plant could be submerged, shutting down sewage treatment. "If you lose these pumps, you're done," says Sapienza, standing...
...prepare for climate change - and growth - the city is spending $30 million to raise the pumps and other electrical equipment at the Rockaway plant well above sea level. The overhaul is just one part of New York's groundbreaking PlaNYC - a long-term blueprint to grow the U.S.'s biggest city green in the age of global warming. "This is about making the city more sustainable," says Sapienza. (See pictures of New York going green...
...demand for gas-guzzling SUVs and neglecting to explore energy-efficient technology, causing it to cede U.S. market share to foreign competitors such as Toyota. In particular, analysts have recently attacked Wagoner for the restructuring plans he enacted during his eight-year term as CEO, which included dozens of plant closures and thousands of worker layoffs, describing them as too little, too late. Several of Wagoner’s classmates, however, called his forced departure a unjustified political sacrifice to appease growing public dissatisfaction with big business. They pointed to GM’s success in expanding global market share...