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...Automakers also took steps to avoid the kind of public relations disaster that dogged their first aid-seeking trip to Washington D.C. last month Ford chief executive Alan Mulally and Chrysler Chairman Robert Nardelli said they would drive to Washington D.C. Mulally, in a carefully worded statement, also said he would reduce his $21 million salary to $1 if the company tapped the federal line of credit...
...short-drive through New England.Even if you do not have as good an excuse for following your favorite team as a sportswriter, my simple advice is that you can’t experience the thrill of the sports road trip without doing it yourself.—Staff writer Robert T. Hamlin can be reached at rhamlin3@gmail.com...
...developer Alexandria Real Estate, Inc. applied for a zoning change that would allow it to construct buildings taller than those currently allowed under East Cambridge zoning rules. Some residents said they believed the meeting was called to facilitate Alexandria’s plans for development. But City Manager Robert W. Healey denied that the meeting had anything to do with zoning regulations, stating that it was meant to address existing biosafety rules. In 1976, Cambridge became the first city in the world to pass biosafety regulations, setting the standard for other labs around the world, Lipson said. Lipson acknowledged concerns...
...Jones Industrial Average, Harvard Kennedy School professor Jeffrey A. Frankel, who is also on the committee, said that he does not think the announcement was responsible. Though the committee does not recommend steps to pull the nation out of the recession, Poterba, Frankel, and committee member Robert E. Hall of Stanford said that policies should be aimed at creating a large stimulus to aid the ailing economy. “Many people are saying across the political spectrum that a good-old fashioned stimulus is what we need in the short term,” Frankel said...
...root cause of Zimbabwe's woes is the power struggle between President Robert Mugabe and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, led by Morgan Tsvangirai. This, by itself, has been bad enough - Mugabe and his security services unleashed a campaign of violence that has killed more than 200 people when they lost control of parliament and Mugabe came second to Tsvangirai in a general election in March this year. (See pictures of the political crisis in Zimbabwe...