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| Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:00:00 EST Q&A: GM's Marketing Chief |
| Since losing nearly $1.3 billion in the first quarter, General Motors has announced a number of reforms meant to right the listing company. Brands such as Buick, Pontiac, Saturn, and Saab will be tightly refocused, and perhaps shrunk. A new "value pricing" scheme meant to reduce rebates and other incentives will lower prices on many 2006 models, so that sticker prices are closer to what buyers actually end up paying. And the "employee discount" promotion run by the world's biggest automaker this summer– widely copied by others–led to record car sales in July. GM's marketing chief Mark LaNeve discussed some of these moves with our auto guru, Richard J. Newman. |
| Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:00:00 EST Sending employees back to school |
| Come September, many of America's younger workers will say goodbye to summer jobs or internships and head back to the classroom. But there could be good reason to keep that day job–and it's not just the paycheck. More than 70 percent of companies now offer educational assistance to their employees, which can include everything from workshops at a local college to a graduate degree. |
| Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:00:00 EST Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Don't look now, but. . . |
| In the classic serial melodrama of the comics, the hero was left with a single finger gripping a high ledge, a tiger above and a ravine below. The following week we would read, "With one bound, he was free." That same incredibility now looks to be the happy story line for Uncle Sam. |
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| Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:14:52 EDT Bomber's mother: I don't see him as a 'monster' |
| Eric Rudolph's mother says his confession to a string of bombings in Atlanta, Georgia, and Birmingham, Alabama, was shocking but that she still loves him and will do so "no matter what happens." In an exclusive CNN interview, Pat Rudolph said: "I think each man is destined in life to fulfill whatever he's called to do, and some people, unfortunately, are on the dark side." |
| Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:43:05 EDT Doomed plane's 'Mayday' went unheard |
| A "tired or weakened" man sent two "Mayday" calls from a Cypriot airliner before it mysteriously crashed in Greece, killing all 121 people aboard, according to a preliminary report published Monday. But the emergency calls went unheard because he was tuned to the wrong frequency, it said. It is not known who made the calls but investigators have previously said a flight attendant was in the cockpit at the time of the crash at Marathon, north of Athens. |
| Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:51:23 EDT Iraq delays vote on draft constitution |
| A draft Iraqi constitution Monday was delivered to national assembly lawmakers -- but with some points still needing to be thrashed out in the assembly. Assembly speaker Hachim al-Hasani was greeted with applause as he told the assembly: "We have received a draft of the constitution." He gave the assembly three days to reach consensus on the outstanding points. |
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