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Chinese Government May Ax Hummer Deal
KickingTiresChina???s state-run radio has reported that the country is likely to reject a Chinese company???s bid to buy Hummer from GM because the brand conflicts with the country???s environmental goals. Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery lacks the expertise to...Tags: Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Hybrid Vehicles, Newspapers, Hummer, Services and Shopping
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Dealers Must Sign Up for Cash For Clunkers
KickingTiresWe???ve been covering the Cash for Clunkers legislation as closely as possible, and one tidbit that hasn???t been noted is new-car dealers must register with the government to take part in the program. The proposed start date of CARS (Car......Tags: Passenger Cars, Services and Shopping, Vehicles
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Obama's healthcare lacks votes: Senator
The Swampby Mark Silva Storm warnings on the healthcare reform front: Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California said today that President Barack Obama may lack the votes in the Senate necessary to push the healthcare reform he wants this summer. "Well to......Tags: Cheese Corn, Petroleum Industry, Politics, Parliament, Cleveland Clinic
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Bagram and beyond: Rivalling Iraq in '09
The Swampby Mark Silva A grim turning point may be nearing in America's two wars: As the U.S. military scales back forces in Iraq and ramps up in Afghanistan, the number of American military deaths in Afghanistan this year is rivaling......Tags: Afghanistan, Death, Dick Cheney, NATO, Suicide
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Obama: Brand-name marketing lesson
The Swampby Mark Silva Barack Obama is "a successful brand.'' And the man who managed the president's election campaign told fellow marketers at a convention on the French Riviera, in Cannes, today that a combination of digital and grassroots marketing is......Tags: Barack Obama, Illinois, Getty Images Inc., Twitter, Inc., National Government
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Obama signs tobacco regulation
The Swampby Christi Parsons Invoking his own personal experience as a teenaged smoker, President Barack Obama today predicted that a tough new law cracking down on cigarette marketers will help young people make the choice not to take up the habit......Tags: Tobacco Products, Marketing, Crime, Law and Justice, Government, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Firefighters victims of discrimination
The Swampby David G. Savage The Supreme Court ruled today that white firefighters who lost promotions in New Haven, Conn., were victims of illegal racial discrimination, with the court holding that employers should not rely on "raw racial statistics" to set......Tags: Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Politics, Court Administration
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Healthcare reform: 'Defining moment'
The Swampby Mark Silva Calling this "a defining moment'' in the nation's history, President Barack Obama today framed the debate over healthcare reform as a matter of rebuilding a strong, competitive economy. "If we don't act,'' Obama says, "if we let......Tags: Medicines, Medicare, Richard Nixon, Health Insurance, Virginia
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Don't ask, don't tell: Iraq vet's repeal duty
The Swampby Josh Drobnyk The congressional effort to reverse the controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays and lesbians in the military has landed on the desk of Rep. Patrick Murphy, an Iraq war veteran and Bronze Star winner who......Tags: Armed Forces, Democratic Party, Robert Gates, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Laws
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On Jeff Sessions: 'Tell Me More'
The Swampby Mark Silva J. Gerald Hebert, a former senior trial attorney in the Civil Rights division of the Department of Justice, was one of the voices who derailed Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III in his bid for a federal judgeship in......Tags: Parliament, Politics, Court Administration, American Civil Liberties Union, Crime, Law and Justice
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Climate control 'sea change' in U.S.
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama said today that expected House passage of an energy bill controlling greenhouse gas emissions will affirm an American "commitment'' to combating global warming, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel called it "a sea...Tags: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Angela Merkel, G8, Government
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Obama: Energy bill will spur new jobs
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, celebrating the House's passage of an energy bill that will ultimately cap greenhouse gas emissions and enable power companies and other polluters to trade their rights for emissions to one another, hailed the...Tags: Florida, U.S. House of Representatives, Parliament, Politics, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning
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