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Wall St.'s belief about the banks swung 180 degrees in less than a week. The rapid shift of heart took some financial shares down by more than 20% in the first trading day of the week...
...company with little history in the auto industry, viewed as potential leader of that shift? One answer is that last September, Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, paid $230 million to buy a 9.8% stake in BYD. At a press conference at the time, David Sokol, chairman of MidAmerican Energy Holdings, the Berkshire Hathaway-owned company that made the investment, said he believed that BYD's technology was a "potential game changer if we're serious about reducing carbon-dioxide emissions." BYD has nearly 11,000 engineers and technicians working on battery technology at the company...
...press conference with six reporters. Looking dapper in a blue pinstripe shirt and red polka-dot tie and sporting a gold-tipped cane, Aidid congratulated the U.S. on having ''decided to address its past mistakes'' -- meaning its attempts to take him prisoner. The whole point of the U.S. policy shift, however, was to call off the hunt for Aidid, which was widely blamed for converting what started out as a humanitarian mission into a mini war, in order to concentrate on a political - settlement that would prevent the country from falling apart after U.S. troops leave. To that end, Robert...
...spokesperson for FAS IT, the cuts in weekend hours resulted not from FAS’s economic woes, but rather from the results of a statistical evaluation of the Clinic’s weekend traffic, which indicated an average of only three client-calls per hour worker shift on weekends. The clinic, located on the building’s second floor, will now only be open from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., Mondays through Fridays. Referring to the conceivable connection between the change in hours and the University’s current budgetary concerns, Selsby said, “There...
...same time, if Chávez and other Latin leftists want Obama to read Galeano, they in turn should read Obama. In his own books, like The Audacity of Hope, Obama lays out the common-sense, post-ideological political philosophy that has led to the U.S. shift on Latin America that so many in the region are now applauding. It's something Latin America's yanqui-bashers, if they want to keep receiving applause from Latin voters themselves, should keep in mind...