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...shutdown at 10 assembly plants next month. Lewis Booth, Ford's chief financial officer, declined to make predictions about industry-wide sales for 2009, but noted, "We're seeing weak sales in Western Europe and in Eastern Europe, where sales in Russia dropped." Russia's weakness prompted Ford to trim production at its new assembly plant near St. Petersburg. "We're even seeing weakness in South America, where sales were very strong right through September," he said. Ford, however, has enough cash to make it through 2009. "We have sufficient liquidity unless a crisis happens," he said...
...year and the onset of a global slump in the second will mean a $5 billion loss for the industry this year, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). More than 30 carriers from Hong Kong to the U.S. have gone under in 2008. Desperate to trim costs and bolster revenues, carriers are turning to mergers to survive, and nowhere is that happening more than in Europe. "The name of the game," says Geoff van Klaveren, an airlines analyst at Exane BNP Paribas in London, "is consolidation...
...vine and we can climb” convey nothing beyond base sexual innuendo. One thing that can be completely ruled out, however, is the possibility of Common’s sex object getting any literal sugar of her own: her trim physique is of utmost importance, and her only job is to “sweat like [she] was losin’ pounds.” Common certainly has more technical ability than other rappers making generic club music, but on “Universal Mind Control,” any rhythmic complexity in his delivery is completely negated...
...Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers, which represents staff at the Medical School and other University divisions, published an open letter last week arguing that labor cuts should be a last resort and that each school should trim its consulting, travel, and catering budgets first...
...proposal would trim the seven possible tracks within the concentration to two: classical languages and literatures, which would emphasize reading knowledge of Latin and Greek, and classical civilizations, which would encourage greater study of history, philosophy, and archaeology...