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...ventilation systems. To instill a sense of entrepreneurship and accountability, he has set profit targets and production goals for project managers. There are also signs that VW is finding creative solutions to hold down labor costs. Under pressure from the state of Lower Saxony, which owns a 22% stake in the automaker and occupies two seats on its supervisory board, VW in 2001 agreed to hire 5,000 unemployed people and work with local government agencies to train them. In return, VW will have greater leeway in setting their hours according to production demands. Part of the deal also entails...
...changed is the level of arrogance that drove corporate governance to the precipice. I think it's safe to get back into the market now as long as you have an adequate degree of caution. And as an investor, you should never forget that it's your money at stake, not theirs. Oh, and if you see a shark's fin, get out of the water...
...much to ask that politics be put aside on this one issue of transcendent importance, where lives are literally at stake? Happily, Joe Lieberman and Dick Gephardt did the right thing last week. "I will support the $87 billion," Gephardt said, "because it is the only responsible course of action. We must not send an ambiguous message to our troops, and we must not send an uncertain message to our friends and enemies in Iraq." This will not help Gephardt in Iowa, but it was an act of courage--Lieberman has made a habit of such acts in this campaign...
Next year’s elections will decide far more than who occupies the White House for the next four years. What is at stake is the very survival of the Democratic Party and its core ideals...
...would render NATO’s Kosovo intervention illegal merely because it was not sanctioned by the Security Council (it was opposed by Russia and China) should not in any way bind America and its allies’ decisions to intervene abroad. When American values and interests are at stake, the United States cannot afford to be shackled by an imagined moral authority that the U.N. no longer deserves...