Word: waits
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Automakers waited all week for news of the expected bridge loan, which finally came on Friday. "The longer we wait, the worse the situation becomes," said one auto executive close to the situation. The Wall Street Journal reported that GM and Chrysler restarted merger talks, but both companies have flatly denied it. "We certainly are not in any merger talks with Chrysler," says Tom Wilkinson, a GM spokesman. "The report was simply wrong...
...company betting on a yen reversal may have a long wait. Tohru Sasaki, chief currency strategist in Tokyo at JPMorgan Chase & Co., believes the dollar-yen exchange is reaching a sustainable average. "The yen's level until last year was abnormally weak. Now it's coming back to normal," he says. Compared to the mid-1990s, he says, the strong yen's negative impact on the Japanese economy is "not that large." To have the same effect as the postwar peak in 1995, the exchange rate would have to reach 48 yen to the dollar, he says, because...
...most political leaders in Africa) chose to ignore the real problem: Mugabe - a corrupt and possibly mentally unstable power freak. My appeal to the world is to get into Zimbabwe now and help put this country and its struggling citizens on the road to recovery. World leaders should not wait for 2009 just because the festive season is at hand. There are many other crisis areas in the world, but someone must take seriously the remark made by Jimmy Carter: The crisis is much worse than we ever imagined. Theo Vermaak, WITBANK, SOUTH AFRICA...
...ROTC advocates say the tenor of the debate was more revealing than the ultimate result. Take Learned Foote, for example, a sophomore who is gay but supports ROTC as a way to bridge the gap between civil and military service. "If you push [the military] off of campus and wait for others to do that work, I don't think that's as effective as saying, 'OK, we're going to put Columbia students who do have progressive values into the military and change it both from the inside and from the outside,'" he says...
Sometimes you have to plant them and then wait for a while. Years ago, I started saving all those T shirts from soccer league and school plays and breast-cancer walks, even after they no longer fit. They are in a box in the attic, awaiting the day my girls head for college and we patch them into a soft, stretchy quilt made entirely of their adventures and allegiances. Maybe someday we'll do the same for their sons and daughters, make a map of moments on their way to forever...