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...said Senator Bob Corker, who added that "GM is spiraling downward and in serious trouble" and that Chrysler "barely has a heartbeat." He then called on Ron Gettelfinger, president of the United Auto Workers, to rate the companies. "I'd rank 'em Ford, Chrysler and General Motors," the union man responded. That won't get Mulally any more money, but at least he knows where he stands in the halls of Congress and the union...
...statement put out by the G-20 after the meeting reflected both the United States’ desire to maintain open markets and Europe’s desire for more heavy-handed regulation. The G-20, established in 1999 and made up of 19 countries and the European Union, represents 90 percent of the world’s gross national product. The group will reassemble in London next April. —Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu
Unfortunately, the primary obstacle to fixing our infrastructure is exactly the problem that anyone still reading is facing; infrastructure is profoundly, unequivocally, and utterly unexciting. There are no union-like picketers banding together to rally for the local toll road. There are no passionate highway rights activists waging sit-ins until freeways receive the new lanes they need to survive. There are no “Save the Bridges” campaigns, and no “I Stand with Route 84” bumper stickers. Despite the staggering number of people served by any individual road or bridge (except...
...option. Earlier this month, the left-leaning nationalist political party Eusko Alkartasuna (EA) which had previously belonged to a coalition with the ruling Basque Nationalist Party, announced that it would run on its own. Having already received the support of a former secretary of the Batasuna-linked trade union LAB, ETA could well draw votes from radicals that might otherwise have been disposed to abstain at ETA's urging. (See pictures of the recent U.S. election...
...recent display of the fierce internecine struggles that have left the PS divided for the past decade. Heavyweights have dedicated so much time to battling one another that the party has rarely managed to make itself heard above the constant bustle of Sarkozy and his ruling conservative party, the Union for a Popular Movement...