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Screen Actors Guild •authorization to strike during economic recession may not be sought...
...Since 9/11, the FBI has begun using legions of Muslim or Arabic informants, many of them illegal immigrants with criminal records, to try to root out radicals before they strike. But the strategy has led to accusations that the informants are themselves hatching the crime, a charge that hung over the entire Fort Dix proceedings. (See the Top 10 Crime Stories of 2008 here...
Susan Docherty, the GM marketing executive responsible for selling the company's Buick, Pontiac and GMC brands, also tried to strike a positive note: "If you look at the brands I'm responsible for, our business was up 10% the first five months of the year," Docherty said. "It's frustrating," notes Docherty, adding the recession is speeding up the shutdown of dealerships. "We've got 6,100 dealers and we're going to go down to 4,500," she says. (See pictures of autoworkers...
...members, SAG is the nation's largest actor's union, ahead of the 70,000 strong American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). The current leadership's concern over digital media residuals is a valid one, though many A-list SAG members question the timing of holding a strike now, during a recession. Actress Rhea Perlman and husband Danny DeVito recently wrote a letter imploring the union to achieve a settlement with the studios rather than strike: the letter was seconded by such box-office draws as Tom Hanks, George Clooney, Cameron Diaz, Matt Damon, and Morgan Freeman...
...that seemed both an expression of his down-home persona and a reminder that he hails from the wide-open spaces he's now charged with managing. At Interior, Salazar, a first-term Democratic Senator from Colorado, will be charged with the critical role of mapping out policies that strike a balance between preserving America's natural resources and tapping them for energy and recreational purposes...