Word: wiring
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...costs to each American-made vehicle, says Sean McAlinden, an economist at the Center for Automotive Research. While the Japanese government pays for most Toyota retirees in Japan, GM shelled out $3.6 billion to pay for retiree health care just last year. GM's turnaround plan is a high-wire act: pushing up the launch of new pickups and SUVs, reducing profit-killing incentives, cutting costs and pressing its unionized work force to share more of GM's health-insurance bill...
...prison overcrowding was worse than ever, with 463,866 men and women jammed into facilities that are filled to twice their capacity. Prisons in a record 37 states have been found unfit by the federal courts. Meanwhile, the bloodshed born of such stock-pen conditions is spreading beyond the wire-topped walls of prisons, clogging the entire criminal-justice system, forcing the early release of dangerous convicts and cycling their pent-up rage back into the streets...
...expression on Montanans' faces when they had heard I was visiting New York City. "Take care of yourself. Be careful," the fellow said. Montana, he contended, was a bastion of dangerous right-wing zealotry. Not only did the state's residents carry guns, persecute environmentalists and gather behind barbed wire in encampments like the one where the notorious Freemen engaged in an armed standoff with federal agents, but Montana's highways had no speed limits. "The place is still in the Stone Age. It's Neanderthal. Personally, I couldn't live there," the fellow said...
...world will learn of their decision, the story of how the news of the Pope's death broke on the wires may be instructive. Everyone was obviously in a race to be first to break the news, which was simultaneously released to dozens of news outlets via an email from Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls. As AP's veteran Vatican correspondent Victor Simpson put it, ?In a case like this you just don't want to get beat.? But the bespectacled New Yorker, who has covered John Paul II's papacy from Day 1 was, in fact, pipped...
...world. Would it be leaked ahead of time? Would there be a false scoop that would set off flurries of speculation? Would the Vatican keep the news secret for hours or days until it could straighten out the situation inside the Curia? The Rome bureau chiefs of news wire agencies and television stations lost sleep for fear of missing the historic news flash. Instead, Navarro's simultaneous email to the major news agencies at the same time that Archbishop Leonardo Sandri announced the news to the faithful in St. Peter's Square, worked seamlessly. And so John Paul's final...