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Which brings us back to Chrysler, the UAW and what is shaping up to be a very hot summer of contract talks. The company's rank and file are less than thrilled about their employer's leaving the warm embrace of Germany and falling into the hands of New York financiers. "These private-equity firms are like modern-day robber barons," said a worker at the company's Warren truck plant outside Detroit. "People are feeling betrayed by the management...
...RANK NAME CITIZENSHIP AGE NET WORTH * RESIDENCE 1 William Gates III U.S. 51 56.0 U.S. 2 Carlos Slim Helú Mexico 67 53.1 Mexico 3 Warren Buffett U.S. 76 52.4 U.S. 4 Ingvar Kamprad Sweden 81 33.0 Switzerland 5 Lakshmi Mittal India 56 32.0 Britain...
Junior Amanda Watkins and freshman Dana Roberts should also see action on the mound this weekend. Each rank in the top ten of the league in ERA. Watkins’ 2.37 mark ranks seventh, while Roberts’ 2.68 mark is ninth. She is also tied for the league lead with four saves...
...Claiming over 5 million reviews on 250,000 properties, TripAdvisor has risen to be the second most popular site, after Hotels.com, receiving over 3.7% of visits to the 5,307 hotel and destination websites in the U.S. Yet hotel reviews rank in 7th place among types of reviews searched for behind movie reviews, book and digital camera reviews...
...first two years Yeltsin got quite far indeed. With Gorbachev's backing, he rose to the (nonvoting) rank of candidate membership in the ruling-party Politburo in 1986, but when he tried to apply his reformist zeal to the top echelons he ran into serious trouble. The climax came in October 1987 with a speech to a closed meeting of the 300-member Central Committee that cost him his party positions and started him on the road that led to the 1991 White House confrontation. While no official text of the speech was published at the time, presumably because...