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...with a heavy dose of contrition. "Toyota has, for the past few years, been expanding its business rapidly," Toyoda said in a prepared statement that he is expected to read at Wednesday's hearing. "Quite frankly, I fear the pace at which we have grown may have been too quick." He also said the company would give greater weight to customer complaints, mandate that managers drive the company's cars and improve communication between the company's international branches. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...became the subject of a major ad campaign, the Mac Wrap was in all 14,000 U.S. McDonald's. For all that, it is a strange, simple little invention. To make a Mac Wrap, you take about half the interior of a Big Mac - a single beef patty, three quick squeezes of special sauce, less lettuce, less cheese, fewer pickles, fewer onions - and wrap the software in a tortilla instead of stacking it on a sesame-seed bun. McDonald's serves the Mac Wrap for only $1.50; it has just 330 calories, 210 fewer than the Big Mac. The wrap...
...year ago, with the prospect of a second Great Depression terrifyingly real, many were quick to cast Barack Obama as another FDR. The prospect of a 21st century New Deal formed part of a larger narrative about the 2008 election. Fueled by anger over two unpopular wars, an economy in meltdown and simple Bush fatigue, voters weren't merely repudiating the status quo. In choosing Obama, they had transformed a center-right country into a center-left one. (See TIME's special report on the legacy of F.D.R...
Tallying two quick goals about halfway through the second period, the rival No. 10 Big Red (16-8-3, 13-5-2 ECAC) built up a lead that would be too difficult for the Crimson (7-17-3, 7-10-3 ECAC) to overcome...
...Bellerive can at least be refreshingly blunt. For all his dreams about an agri-boom on Haiti's central plateau, he's quick to note that "our goal at the moment isn't to escape poverty. It's to escape misery so we can get back to poverty." Haitians like Marie Chantal would agree: they'd gladly take back their lives of poverty - with at least lace curtains in the windows - than face the misery raining down on them...