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...American people made Ford Motor Company what it is. We have nothing the public did not give us. No surplus exists for personal benefit - every surplus is provided for future use. The future is here, and we are going to do our utmost - risk everything, if necessary - to use this surplus which the public, through its dealings with us, has provided, to see if we cannot make what the country needs most - work, jobs." - Henry Ford...
Flores’ work as the chair of the UC’s Finance Committee contributed to the Dems’ preference for her ticket, Lam said yesterday. The Dems president credited Flores’ leadership with allowing the UC to achieve a budget surplus last year...
...rise in the price of fuel. As fuel prices skyrocketed up to $145 a barrel this summer, biofuel became an increasingly appealing and economically viable solution to our oil addiction. But we are really addicted to oil, and what little ethanol the U.S. produces domestically (made from surplus corn that we used to donate as food aid) has not been able to cut it. In order to meet demand, investors have turned to countries like Tanzania...
...This downsizing is needed to cope with overcapacity, but it's fostering bad blood between the car maker and its union. "We felt betrayed," says Chris Buckley, president of Canadian Auto Workers local 222, whose membership at GM Canada's assembly complex on Lake Ontario includes workers from the surplus truck plant. "It's never been this bad. We're on the verge of closing our doors...
...technology - was profound in the sense that a lot of those businesses that went away bought a lot of our products. Not just Herman Miller chairs, but also racks of servers and laptops and stuff. For a long time, throughout most of 2001, you could buy a lot of surplus servers on eBay for a third or tenth of the price. So there was a clear artificial bubble in terms of sales that got dissipated over the subsequent years. I don't see that same phenomenon in this crisis particularly. The servers that were at Bank A, which...