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...Carlos Slim, a Times Co. shareholder, can be swept under the rug long enough for him to step into the role. The company could create a document separating "church" from "state," which might keep Slim out of the newsroom like the provisions to hold Rupert Murdoch in check at Dow Jones...
...Worker Left Behind" program in August 2007. So far the state has footed the bill - up to $10,000 per displaced worker - for 61,434 unemployed Michiganders to learn the math, technology and science skills they need to embark on new careers at companies like Hemlock Semiconductor, Dow Chemical and Dow Corning, which are investing and hiring there. Also in demand: the program's newly trained nursing assistants, physical therapists and health-care technicians...
...even though the Michigan court has deep experience with auto-related bankruptcies - it has handled those of partsmakers such as Collins & Aikman, Intermet and Plastech Engineered Products - and has fielded its share of megacases, including the landmark bankruptcy that resulted from lawsuits against Dow Corning over silicone breast implants, landing GM may be an uphill battle. "The [lawyers] for the automobile companies sleep much closer to New York and Delaware than they do to Detroit," says Hugh Ray, a partner at the Houston-based law firm Andrews Kurth who is also admitted to the New York bar. "You're afraid...
...mass murder--suicides has left more than 50 people dead in the U.S. over the past month. Criminologist James Alan Fox, attempting to explain the killings to the Washington Post, said, "The economic pie is shrinking to the point where it looks more like a Pop-Tart." But the Dow was above 12,000 on the April morning two years ago when Cho Seung-Hui made his bid for significance at Virginia Tech. And the rampage of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold at Columbine High School, 10 Aprils ago, came during a delirious bull...
...March 23, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled the Obama Administration's toxic-bank-assets plan. The stock markets cheered the news, sending the Dow up 497 points...