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...That's more than a little surprising when you consider that Mexico has overtaken Canada in production of GM vehicles, making such popular name plates as the Chevy Silverado and Suburban. Last year GM made a total of 504,858 vehicles at four assembly plants in Mexico; that's 9% higher than the 463,869 cars and light trucks produced by GM Canada...
...About three-quarters of the 504,858 vehicles GM Mexico produced in 2008 were exported throughout the Americas and the Middle East. But the vast majority - 68% of the total - ended up being sold in the U.S. market. (Historically GM has profited by importing vehicles into its home market from Canada and Mexico by taking advantage of lower fixed costs...
...also now play the Final Table in November so it can be on prime-time television. All of these changes were designed to accommodate and capitalize on a bigger field. The first year I did it, we couldn't even fill a table. They had something like 6,800 total entrants for last year's Main Event. In the beginning, it was always a bunch of touring pros in these. Now there are a lot of amateurs, some of whom are pretty good...
...about $50 billion - but in the current economic crisis, even a company as rich as Porsche can no longer snap its fingers and find the money. (Last year, thanks to windfall gains from the option-trading strategy, its profits before taxes of $11.6 billion were actually larger than its total revenues from sales of $10.2 billion...
...Iraq rather than the $4-a-barrel rate sought by oil executives. Chevron, which had negotiated for a year to develop Iraq's second-biggest field, West Qurna, pulled out of the deal on Tuesday, saying it had not met the company's "standard investment criteria." French giant Total and Spain's Repsol also withdrew after failing to secure a better deal from the Iraqis, leaving Baghdad high and dry. "[The Iraqis] approached this auction with a bit of arrogance," Younsi says. "They thought oil companies would do absolutely anything to get into Iraq...