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The US automotive industry has been undergoing tremendous changes in recent years. Some of these changes include significant reductions in employment, factory closings, bankruptcies among the supplier base, downgrades on corporate bond issuances, and consolidations. One needs to merely pick up any daily newspaper to also see the market share losses by the group formerly known as the Big Three (now more appropriately called the Detroit Three -- Daimler Chrysler, Ford Motor Co, and General Motors). While the Detroit Three have been dealing with mostly bad news, foreign nameplate producers are enjoying a very different environment. The keyword that seems to address the difference between the companies gaining share and those that are losing share is flexibility. The Detroit Three are striv...
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With the financial meltdown in full force across the globe, finger-pointing for the problem has become a national preoccupation. Easy credit, low interest rates, mismanagement and political interference are often mentioned as culprits.
Overlooked in this heated debate, however, is Sept. 11, 2001, the day the Earth shook with horror. In addition to the more than 2,800 people who lost their lives on that fateful day, the world economy took a financial hit that accumulated to somewhere between $1 trillion and $3 trillion. By contrast, the terror operation cost about $200,000, a destructive leverage of at least 5 million to 1.
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Trial court's ruling that appellants failed to establish an unconstitutional taking of property affirmed where only loss appellants' sustained from zoning ordinance was loss of market value and appellants never acquired a vested right to use of property as a buildable lot.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), among other things, requires that health insurance companies pay a minimum percentage of premi...
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By LEAH BETH WARD
YAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
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To: NATIONAL EDITORS
Contact: Tom Gresham, VCU Communications and Public Relations, +1- 804-828-6051, tmgresham@vcu.edu
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BEIJING - A year after a public spat with Beijing over censorship, Google Inc. says its business with Chinese advertisers is growing even as the Internet giant's share of online searches in China plunges.
A major Chinese portal announced last week it would no longer use Google for search, compounding its rapid loss of market share since March last year when it closed its local search engine. The future of a Google map service that is a key part of its remaining appeal in China is in doubt.
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BEIJING (AP) -- A year after a public spat with Beijing over censorship, Google Inc. says its business with Chinese advertisers is growing even as the Internet giant's share of online searches in China plunges.
A major Chinese portal announced last week it would no longer use Google for search, compounding its rapid loss of market share since March last year when it closed its local search engine. The future of a Google map service that is a key part of its remaining appeal in China is in doubt.
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DUBLIN -- Dublin - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bchspc/generics_in_cardio) has announced the addition of the "Gene...