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Chrysler: "By the end of 2008 [from 2007], Chrysler will have separated over 32,000 employees, including 5,000 white collar employees who left the company just this past Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Cost cutting has been substantial, swift and wide-ranging. Nothing has been viewed as 'sacred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GM, Ford and Chrysler's Bailout Plans | 12/3/2008 | See Source »

...reaction to the plan was swift - and far from the general applause Britain's leaders received for their bank-bailout plans just six weeks ago. "A general decrease in value-added tax is perhaps the answer for some countries, but for Germany and France it is not," said German Chancellor Angela Merkel, following a meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on a common European response to the economic downturn. Asked Sarkozy: "Should we use up our available room for maneuver on reducing prices when prices are already falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Obama Pushes a Stimulus, Europe Lags Behind | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...home. (Turbines like Morrell's convert the energy of the wind to electricity, while old windmills are geared for mechanical power, like pulling water from a well.) On days with decent wind - which occur frequently enough, since he can feel the breeze from Lake Michigan - the $16,000 Swift wind turbine can generate 1.5 kilowatts (kW) an hour, i.e., enough to power the average lightbulb for 15 hours. Together with his solar array, that's enough to take care of much of his electricity bill. "It's clean energy we don't have to dig for. It just comes right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Got Wind? Turbines for the Green Home | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...Aviv gangster Ya'acov Alperon liked his violence up close and personal. He relied on his boxer's swift, sledgehammer fists and the blade of a knife to terrorize Tel Aviv's shopkeepers, brothel owners and drug dealers into paying protection money. But in the end, what finally got Alperon was that most impersonal of assassin's weapons: the car bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Death of Tel Aviv's Old-Fashioned Mob Kingpin | 11/18/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard, including Ryan, said last week that they believe that the Treasury Department and the University are different enough that many of their complaints would not be applicable if Obama appoints Summers to his Cabinet.Economics Professor Kenneth S. Rogoff said that what he sees as Summers’ swift, bold decision-making style is vital given the current financial crisis and will outweigh the effect the Faculty’s previous criticisms could have on his nomination.“I think we’re in a crisis, and in this situation, those qualms will be cast aside...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Professors: University Past Shouldn't Follow Summers' Political Future | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

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