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Thursday, December 4 2008

  • Marci Alboher: Slashing By Necessity December 4, 2008

    Marci Alboher is a freelance writer/journalist/author/blogger/speaker who focuses on career and workplace trends. She talks about how to diversify your career portfolio in these tough times. (article)

  • Georgia has no pity for Detroit December 4, 2008

    Georgia has no pity for Detroit (episode)

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    • Georgia has no pity for Detroit December 4, 2008

      Citizens of West Point, Georgia, where a giant Kia plant is due to open next year, are deeply skeptical about a bailout for the US auto industry.

    • Rice goes to Pakistan December 4, 2008

      Following her trip to India, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets with Pakistani officials. Reports say the U.S. is putting pressure on the new government of Pakistan and urging ...

    • Russians call their President and Putin answers December 4, 2008

      Russia is holding a national broadcast where citizens call in and ask questions. But it's Vladimier Putin who is taking the calls, not his successor Dmitri Medvedev.

    • Scalpel? Thx. Gauze? Thx. Can U Consult? Txt me bck. December 4, 2008

      A doctor in the Congo performs an amputation with the help of a text message.

    • UAW offers concessions, auto workers respond December 4, 2008

      The UAW says it will make concessions to adapt to tough times. " I'm a third generation auto worker. My grandfather had his retirement watch signed by Henry Ford II." — Ken Meffo...

    • GM's Saturn may be getting the boot December 4, 2008

      Saturn, GM's star brand, has not lived up to its promise.

    • WMD attack likely by 2013 December 4, 2008

      "We're most concerned today about developments in the biological area. Unlike nuclear which is a man-made material and reasonably scientifically difficult to produce, biological pat...

    • BOE cuts rates to 2% December 4, 2008

      The Bank of England cuts its rate by one percent and the European Central Bank cut rates by a record 75 basis ponts, its biggest move ever. The Bank of England's interest rates have n...

    • Global markets respond to historic rate cuts December 4, 2008

      The financial markets open just as the Bank of England and the European Central Bank dramatically slash rates. "Politically, nobody wants to say that; it's very much the agenda t...