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...acceptance speech, Aykroyd spoke about the importance of the “collaborative spirit...
...enemy in the U.S. auto industry's fight to survive. "Our contracts with Chrysler, Ford and GM represent only 10% of the cost of assembling of a vehicle. But most days, it seems like we get 110% of the attention," said UAW president Ron Gettelfinger in a recent speech. In the wake of GM's most recent quarter, in which the company lost $9.6 billion - $30.9 billion on the year - the fight is getting more desperate. So the union is back at the table, negotiating more relief for the Detroit Three...
...plan, announced by CEO Andrew Witty on February 13 in a speech delivered at Harvard Medical School, would limit prices in the 50 least developed countries and give back a portion of the profits gained in these countries toward programs to expand their health-care capacity. More surprisingly, GSK also announced that it would allow outside researchers access to some of its patented medical technologies in an effort to facilitate more research aimed at so-called “neglected diseases,” or diseases that currently suffer from a severe lack of research funding...
...Rourke, Mickey • profanities-contained-in-a-televised-award-acceptance-speech record...
...Word of the new White House drawdown plan, which Obama officially announced on Friday morning in a speech at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, was greeted with shrugs of contentment by most Iraqi political figures, largely because the Obama plan appears to be in step with what Iraqis had expected as a result of the Status of Forces Agreement signed by the Maliki government and the Bush Administration last December. That agreement requires most U.S. combat troops to be off the streets of Iraq by this summer and all U.S. troops to have left the country by 2011. (See pictures...