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...months ago, major Western carmakers were on the skids. Standard & Poor's slashed the credit ratings for mighty Ford and General Motors to "junk" status in May; a month later, GM announced plans to cut 25,000 jobs. Sliding sales and depleted cash bumped Britain's MG Rover into administration in April. But it's summertime, and there are signs of life: GM's Employee Discount for Everyone promotion bumped its U.S. sales up by 41% in June, the best monthly sales performance since 1986. And PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rover's administrator, was in talks last week with three separate suitors - involving...
...home entertainment. For protection against intruders, you can get a phone that meshes with your home-security system and doubles as a panic button. From fire-fighter-grade smoke masks to next-generation smoke detectors to a GPS collar that makes it easy to keep track of Rover no matter where he roams, here are gadgets to take care of everyone in the family...
...show called ‘My Super Sweet Sixteen.’ It follows incredibly wealthy, self-absorbed girls as they plan spectacularly decadent birthday parties for themselves. If your idea of fun is watching a fifteen year old girl scream at her Israeli father because her white Range Rover arrived a day late, this is the show...
TONY WOODLEY, union leader at MG Rover, after China's Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. abandoned plans to take over Britain's last volume carmaker at the cost of 5,000 jobs
...performing contestants get voted off. The reporter suggested it might be Blair himself, whose popularity has been flagging, especially compared with that of Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown. Labour's loudest grinding ax, economic competence, was potentially blunted by the collapse of Britain's last major carmaker, MG Rover; the government quickly announced a $284 million package to help with the consequences of 5,000 lost jobs. Opposition parties grumbled about the need for an official inquiry, but failed to convey how they would have saved the long-suffering firm. But the most amusing sideshow since the start...