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...that the rival bid from Fiat was just an attempt, as one union official put it, to "pinch German engineering." The unions regard Magna as an innovative company that put forward the best plan to secure the long-term future of Opel. At the carmaker's headquarters in the town of Rüsselsheim near Frankfurt, workers were hugging friends and colleagues outside the factory on Saturday when news of the deal broke. Many were surprised the German government finally stepped in to save the traditional carmaker Opel in the nick of time, just before its parent company...
...Richest Man in Town: The Twelve Commandments of Wealth By W. Randall Jones Business Plus; 242 pages...
...reduce travel time considerably for the stream of trucks and cars traversing a highway that connects the provincial capital, Guiyang, with the nearest big city, Kunming, the capital of neighboring Yunnan province. Far from resenting the bridge as a white elephant, the residents of nearby Guanling, a one-stoplight town where the average income is less than $150 a year, view it as crucial to economic development and improvement in their lives. "I really cannot wait for the bridge to be completed," says Yuan Bo, 25, a graphic designer who takes a two-hour bus ride every week from...
...from the city - not that far - and the conditions are still pretty poor." Truth to tell, they're bad enough in parts of the city itself, where legions of "stick stick" men line the sidewalks hoping to earn a few dollars carrying goods up the town's steep hillsides, reminding all who see them of China's lingering poverty...
...ranked near the end, and we had nothing to lose. We came out every game trying to prove something.”And a little bit of luck gave Harvard the chance to take the ECAC title in the final weekend of play.League-leading St. Lawrence came to town on Feb. 20, and the Crimson took advantage of its golden opportunity. Harvard crushed the Saints, 4-0, to take the conference lead, and sealed the title with a 6-1 thrashing of Clarkson on Senior Day. “It was unbelievable,” Brine said...