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...says, adding that he thinks the company has a strong lineup of cars and trucks in the pipeline. But he also downplays any suggestions that he'll be Motown's Chainsaw Al - a guy who'll try and slash and burn his way into the black. "A momentum shift is how I'd characterize it," he says. Whether he'll shift Ford into a profitable gear remains to be seen...
...President's speech, filled with graphic details of terror plots, is clearly part of the ongoing White House campaign to shift the terms of the political debate over national security issues. As the Democrats are pointing to U.S. difficulties in Iraq and demanding the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the White House has begun to reemphasize the continuing terror threat to America - an issue that has tended to favor Republicans. The question of what legal rights Congress should legislate for detained terror suspects is also highly contentious, and putting it on the legislative agenda less than a month before...
Still, there's good news. The central contention of my 2003 story was that the SAT's shift from an abstract-reasoning test to a test of classroom material like Algebra II would hurt kids from failing schools. I was worried that the most vulnerable students would struggle on the new version. Instead, the very poorest children--those from families earning less than $20,000 a year--improved their SAT performance this year. It was a modest improvement (just 3 points) but significant, given the overall slump in scores. And noncitizen residents and refugees saw their scores rise an impressive...
...shares Summers’ vision for the University. As Harvard prepares to select its third leader in just two years, Ford likewise is entering a period of transition. The automaker announced this January that it would shed up to a quarter of its workforce and that it would shift production toward smaller, fuel-efficient cars. In his letter announcing his resignation from Ford’s board, Rubin wrote that his role as a director at financial conglomerate Citigroup Inc. might appear to clash with his duties at Ford as the automaker’s board undertakes an internal strategic...
...Within weeks of the shift ashore, new casino players like the Golden Nugget bought land in Biloxi for casino development. Harrah's Casino, owner of the destroyed Grand Casinos in Gulfport and Biloxi, sold its Gulfport location, moved everything to Biloxi and bought out a smaller casino for future expansion. And, the crown jewel of coast casinos - the huge Beau Rivage in Biloxi - announced a massive renovation beyond its Katrina damage. It plans to observe the one-year anniversary of the storm with a grand reopening to salute returning employees...