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...French-Dutch Air France-KLM was the only bidder left in an auction that began 15 months ago when Italy's Economy Ministry put its 49.9% of the debt-saddled company on the auction block. Air France Chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta pulled out after Alitalia union representatives arrived at the table with brand new 11th hour terms after all sides had worked for weeks on a standing framework that included layoffs of around 2,100 and the closing of Alitalia's cargo division. The talks, of course, collapsed...
When, later in his deanship, the spoils of a successful capital campaign and strong endowment growth turned deficits into new spending opportunities, Knowles pursued some of the University’s most successful construction projects in recent decades. He refurbished the dormitories in the Old Yard, converted the Freshman Union into the Barker Center, and laid the plans for new government buildings that opened...
...needed to have the "hope boiled out of me." Having knocked down that straw man, he would soar through an American history of hope, from the colonists to civil rights marchers. It was the core of his message: patriotism defined as change, the creation of a more perfect union. And so it was rather shocking to hear Obama speak - stripped down and hope redacted - in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., on April Fools' Day, his peroration transformed into a Clintonian pledge to get up every morning as President and devote himself to the single mothers, the laid-off workers, "the working families...
...Polls in this union-heavy state show Clinton has been, so far, winning that message war, but Obama - who has spent the last six days traversing the state - is rapidly catching up. She leads Obama by 6 percentage points, down from 17 points earlier this week, according to an average of Pennsylvania polls by Real Clear Politics, a non-partisan website that tracks the election. Yet the latest Survey USA poll shows Clinton leading Obama 71% to 23% in the state's union-dense northeastern Rust Belt - the only region where she gained ground in that poll...
...Obama's straight-talk approach has not played as well with crucial white union voters as Clinton's hopeful populist pronouncements, which helped her win neighboring Ohio by more than 10 points. As McCain discovered in Michigan, not too many workers want to hear there's little hope of getting their old jobs back. "If there aren't major policy differences, it's about perceptions, it's about who is feels your pain," said Greg Valliere, chief political strategist at Stanford Washington Research Group, which tracks economic policy issues. "Hillary is slightly better; she appeals to beer drinkers, Obama appeals...