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...business," declares Ford chairman and CEO William Clay Ford Jr. That would be nice. Ford has been leaking money the way an old radiator does water, losing a combined $6.4 billion in 2001 and 2002. The No. 2 U.S. automaker, with sales of $133 billion, expects to post a slim profit...
...said that administrators have done what they can to minimize the need for layoffs. “In the current budget year, we’ve transferred money from what had once been collection support to keep positions funded,” she said, referring to a move to slim down journal subscriptions announced earlier this year...
...Taiwan-owned company called Compal using Taiwanese circuitry, a U.S.-made Intel chip and a screen from Korea. All those imported parts explain why, despite a projected trade surplus with the U.S. of between $120 billion and $130 billion for this year, China's worldwide surplus will be a slim $15 billion. As America's imports from China have risen, its imports from Taiwan, Singapore and Japan have declined...
...generally midlevel officials from Saddam's extensive security apparatus. "They're colonels, lieutenant colonels and majors who are really the hard-core loyalists," U.S. Major General Raymond Ordierno, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, tells TIME. While the deposed dictator is the ideological inspiration for these loyalists, chances seem slim that he is directing attacks himself. "The communication involved," says a Pentagon official in Iraq, "would expose him too much to capture." Instead, U.S. officials believe, strategic direction for the resistance is left to Saddam's longtime second-in-command Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, the highest-ranking regime official still...
...future, the stick of common policing is bound to be more central to Europe's immigration policy than the carrot of legal quotas. "We want third countries to help us slow the tide," says an E.U. official. "But we don't have much to give them in exchange." The slim number of immigrants European countries are willing to admit they need still doesn't approach the number of those willing to risk life and limb to get to Europe. On the Italian island of Lampedusa, where hundreds of desperate immigrants have washed ashore in recent years, finance police commander Romeo...