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...Chrysler alone, nearly 200,000 jobs are at risk. If the bankruptcies ripple out to suppliers in the event that a judge voids some of their receivables, another several thousand jobs could be at stake. Then there are several amorphous estimates about people who work in fields related to the car companies. That could be industries as diverse as restaurants in Detroit and airline that fly there. It is probably safe to say that close to a million jobs are in jeopardy if the two car companies lose their independence. (See pictures of Detroit's decline...
...Intermix also owned a majority stake in a fast-growing website - Myspace.com - which had attracted an impressive 17.7 million visitors the prior month. A consummate salesman, [Intermix CEO Richard] Rosenblatt focused his comments on the potential of adding MySpace's broad audience to complement Rupert Murdoch's already enviable empire of top-flight media companies...
...would be gagging, falling over. But ducks actually breathe through the center of their tongue. They're not gagging and being prevented from breathing. In fact, they store fat in their liver, which is unlike us. But it sounds awful and because most people don't have a stake in it, it's easier to have an opinion - like this is just decadent and mean and the ultimate example of our inhumanity. It's a safe way to say you're sticking up for animals without putting much on the line...
...bonuses to executives of the company. Documents later turned over to the Connecticut Attorney General show that the actual figure was $218 million. To date, the government has loaned AIG $170 billion from various financial assistance efforts, including Troubled Asset Relief Program ("TARP"), in exchange for an 80 percent stake in the company. However, in apparent disregard of its unmatched failure, AIG chose to honor its employee's compensation agreements, and awarded multi-million dollar bonus to its executives...
...stake is the control of disputed territories. Kurds say they are reclaiming areas like the oil-rich city of Kirkuk that was theirs until Saddam Hussein forcibly removed them from it. Arabs say the land wasn't Kurdish to begin with. In the meantime, Kurdish peshmerga militia forces, which operate independently of Baghdad and answer to Kurdistan's regional government, have steadily pushed south of their United Nations-delineated border into contested zones...