SALINE, Mich. — For seven years, Wachauna Johnson has been making lemonade out of the crummy job market she faced after graduating from college in 1999. Failing to find work using her public relations degree, she landed a job on the line at a plant...
4 days, 7 hours ago (2008-11-14 08:37:00)
by mtm1963
year when someone retires early or takes a buyout and once that retiree is old enough to move onto Medicare and Social Security the cost drops to 20 000 annually usatoday.com/money/autos/2006-03- 28-buyout-packages_x.htm" target=_blank>http://www.usatoday.com/money/aut os/...p how many retired union auto workers are there a few million do the math and can see a BIG problem mtm1963
Taking a cigarette break outside a General Motors (GM) assembly plant in Lansing, Mich., last week, Mike O'Driscoll admits he has problems: diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol. The GM assembly plant in Janesville, Wis., may be closed as part...
1 day, 9 hours ago (2008-11-17 06:55:00)
by ford nut
but I ve long suspected that the Big Three might make the most powerful push for socialized medicine 2009 will be the time to do it Thats a good point http://www.usatoday.com/money/aut os/...a Quote As GM recovers from its worst quarterly loss in more than a decade 1 1 billion executives have targeted health care as a top opportunity for cost cutting
To Timbuktu by flying car: it sounds the most unlikely journey on earth; a sci-fi voyage from the pages of Jules Verne. But this is no fantasy. The car really flies. And the journey will become reality early in the new year when two explorers set off...
Drivers who spot hidden speed cameras will be able to alert other vehicles within three seconds with the help of a dashboard gadget. They will no longer need to flash their headlights to oncoming drivers but will simply press a button on a...
6 days, 14 hours ago (2008-11-12 01:47:00)
by 911UK
had been thought to be illegal under the Wireless and Telegraphy Act 1949 The Road Safety Act 2006 gave the Government the power to ban radar and laser speed cameras timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/art icle5126825.ece" target=_blank>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ driving _________________
I don’t like speed cameras very much so you’d probably expect me to laud the decision taken by Swindon council to remove them from the town’s streets. Hmmm. The council says that it currently spends £320,000 a year on cameras and...
6 days, 8 hours ago (2008-11-12 07:28:00)
by LEE69
timesonline.co.uk/tol/driving/jer emy_clarkson/article5106324.ece" target=_blank>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ dri...c The number of pedestrians being killed on the roads in the least deprived areas where intelligent people live is three times smaller than the number in areas of greatest deprivation where thick people live Quote quot Stephen Fry would be allowed to travel at 160 while Kerry Katona would be limited to 2mph quot
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats will take up a bill to extend $25 billion in emergency loans to the auto industry on Monday. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he plans a test vote two days later. ....
Sometimes, I think life would be a lot less complicated if we were deer. Because then, all we’d need do to establish ourselves, as the superior being in a group, is to stand tall and wave our antlers around. Unfortunately, men cannot do this,...
THE new Triumph Tiger 1050 is supposed to be a lot more road-oriented, but the road leading into Green Park at Conondale on the Sunshine Coast hinterland for the recent national motocross event was gravel and the carpark was grass. So I gave it a bit of...
3 days, 6 hours ago (2008-11-15 09:31:00)
by Advwannabe
Hey Pile Below is a cut and paste link to a road test of the 1050 from Oz where the guy rode on a bit of gravel http://www.news.com.au/couriermai l/s...0 There are also clips on youtube of the roadies doing some pretty extreme things I don t know how old you are but back in the days before fairings and adventure tourers
WIESBADEN, Germany — Automaker Adam Opel, owned by General Motors (GM), said Friday that it will seek loan guarantees from German authorities as the financial crisis grips European carmakers. The company said it would seek guarantees for an...
I came across this article today discussing Opel looking for loan guarantees Opel Article nbsp I found this excerpt kind of I don t know can t think of the right word phrase nbsp Demant and employee council chief Klaus Franz along with GM s European president Carl Peter Forster wrote a letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday outlining their
LOS ANGELES — Ron Olsen could have bought a Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Lexus or another Cadillac. Instead, the Boeing retiree decided to part with $40,000 for the new kid in the luxury sedan market — a Hyundai Genesis. ....
4 days, 12 hours ago (2008-11-14 03:24:00)
by tenpin288
There is a new article in today s USA Today Money section about Hyundai Genesis and Hyundai s move to improve their image and move upmarket nbsp USA Today Money article nbsp nbsp
