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...retiree costs to go down, around 2010, as GM vets increasingly qualify for Social Security and Medicare. To bridge itself to 2010, GM is shedding factories and workers, offering buyout packages to its entire North American hourly workforce. It is also raising cash by unloading assets like a 51% stake in its GMAC finance arm, scheduled to be sold to a private equity firm, Cerberus Capital, for $14.1 billion. "We've made big moves in every area," Wagoner told TIME, adding that GM has "no plan, strategy or vision to utilize bankruptcy" to restructure...
...remind students that they have the right to opt-out of the UC term-bill fee in protest of the recent UC delinquency. If our elected government continues to fail in its efforts to reform, then it might be more compelled to do so with its financial solvency at stake. We are sincerely dismayed that UC members have become this mired in a medley of self-serving and myopic politics. The UC is failing at its one job, representing undergrads, and thus students should drive for a referendum to bring needed change. A referendum might seem extreme to some...
...Wellons says, “once you get involved, it’s like a tarbaby. You have a stake...
Farce aside, there's plenty at stake downtown. The towers destroyed in the attack covered 10 million sq. ft. of space and housed 25,000 employees. In total, 2,749 people died in the attacks--some leaping from the burning upper floors of the towers. The new World Trade Center will cost more than $15 billion and anchor the country's fourth largest business district after midtown Manhattan, the Loop in Chicago and downtown Washington. Construction on the Freedom Tower finally began last month, in a symbolic groundbreaking, after Silverstein came to an agreement with state and city agencies that...
...Kekexili” evokes such a whirlwind of feelings, it’s difficult to tell where anyone’s loyalties lie at the end. Chuan Lu paints this gut-wrenching ambiguity in swaths across the entirety of his film, driving it home like a stake through the heart. Pity is perhaps the most lasting emotion “Kekexili” imprints upon the viewer: Pity for the women and children who cry as their men depart for the mountains, pity for the terrible price one man’s vendetta wreaks on lasting comradeships, and pity...