Word: quarters
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...intention of letting Americans run Daimler. This month the DaimlerChrysler chairman decided they couldn't run Chrysler either. Schrempp fired Chrysler president James Holden and brought in a Mercedes veteran, Dieter Zetsche, after it was announced that the U.S. automaker had lost $512 million in the third quarter, its first loss since 1991--and, by all accounts, the first of several to come. Zetsche arrived with his own German chief operating officer in tow and, on his first day at work last Monday, promptly canned three more Chrysler execs. That brought to more than a dozen the number...
...still there, in most of the U.S. But a trip from New York City to Boston that can take close to five hours is now over in about three and a quarter, thanks to a new "tilting" technology that helps the Acela negotiate curves. More than a year behind schedule and millions of dollars over budget, the Acela, which is expected to launch in the Washington-Boston Northeast corridor on Dec. 11, is Amtrak's last chance to prove that intercity passenger rail can be a legitimate travel alternative in the U.S., as it is in Europe and Japan...
...escalating attention? For starters, PE class has become practically invisible over the past decade--even as American kids have become alarmingly obese. In 1991, 42% of high school kids participated in daily PE. Now only 25% do. Less than a quarter of all children get 20 minutes of vigorous exercise a day; 25% of all students don't get any PE. Only seven states require elementary PE teachers to be certified; three don't require PE at all. Georgia, the state with the highest rate of increase in obesity in the past 10 years, voted last summer to give middle...
...maintain power, Bedie manipulated xenophobic tendencies unleashed by political competition and championed a notion of "Ivoirite," which distinguished "real" Ivorians from latecomers to this prosperous nation. Immigrants from neighboring countries constitute nearly a quarter of the Ivoirian population and were vital in forging the country's economic success. Yet to Bedie, to be a "true" Ivorian, one's parents and grandparents must have been born in the country. By championing Ivoirite, Bedie sought to isolate the large immigrant population and the mainly Muslim northern part of the country that supported Alassane Ouattara, leader of the Assembly of Republicans, the largest...
...post that he took in the mid-1970s on the Fountain House's Committee on Educational Research grew into a quarter century of work with the house, which he continued until recent years...