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Politics is a popular topic at Hair Design Team. "The funniest part are my clients who say Obama is the Antichrist," Cannon said. "I just laugh." Because after months on the fence between the two candidates, Cannon has come down on Obama's side, and the reason is simple: "The economy is terrible, and he is more for the working...
...three weeks as GM Europe tries to adjust to falling demand for its cars. Opel was one of the first western firms to set up shop in Eisenach after the fall of the wall in 1989. The factory, which employs some 1,800 people, now produces GM's popular Corsa model for export around Europe and beyond. The town (population 40,000) has also become home to suppliers such as component maker Bosch, machine servicing firm Hormann, and Lear, which makes seats for the Corsa. "Eisenach lives from Opel," says Uwe Laubach, head of the local branch...
Sarbanes-Oxley is not popular among free-market advocates. "I know," says Levine, "people involved in all this will say that they wanted to maximize shareholder value." But he thinks that today's capitalism needs to be a little more bounded in order to protect the possible victims of its excesses. That term includes the poor man who mistakenly takes an impossible mortgage. But increasingly it may mean all of us. In regulating, says the rabbi-economist, "we have to imitate God, in the way He shows compassion and mercy when he deals with mankind...
Despite these challenges, Kirby said policy changes are not inconceivable, noting that the Chinese government “certainly pursues many policies it believes are for the public good,” not only popular measures...
Tymoshenko, whose party is far more popular than Yushchenko's, has been campaigning, perhaps with an eye on the 2010 presidential race, in eastern Ukraine - where much of the population inclines more toward Russia than toward the West - and has backed the more Moscow-friendly Party of the Regions headed by Viktor Yanukovych. In last year's parliamentary election, Yanukovych's party polled highest, winning just over one-third of the national vote, but was kept out of power by a renewed coalition between Tymoshenko and Yushchenko...