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GM's latest plan to cut $10 billion in expenses includes cutting salaried and marketing expenses. The opportunity for cost cutting in this area is evident from the size of the budget, the 4th largest advertiser in the USA with $2.1 billion in ad spending in 2007, this was about 8% less than 2006, but 2006 was 24% increase from 2005.

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As the old rules are being rewritten or changed there is considerable ambiguity about the new nuclear rules for India and Pakistan, says The Times. This happens as Mr. Trump is distracted by the international problems such as North Korea and Venezuela and the Mueller probe into Trump and the election of 2016, and as UK prime minister May is distracted by Brexit. 

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Typical of this Spanish player from Gijon, Sporting Gijon Liga team, is his humility and respect for others. He says -"Legend, I am not interested in that."

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Karl Rove on Obama's chances for President in elections against McCain. Commenting after Obama won the North Carolina primary and almost tied with Hillary in Indiana, after the Wright affair, and other Obama troubles.

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Why no new infrastructure building plan is in place in the US for decades as China, now India build new infrastructure every day with a Master Plan. The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in March 2024 in the Baltimore, Maryland area. There was much hand wringing at the time and president Biden also stepped in with help. The Washington Post says 2 years later no plan is in place to build a new bridge. The cost keeps going up from $1 billion to $1.9 billion and up again to $5.2 billion, with the dates shifting 2028 to 2030. Maryland received $2.6 billion insurance payments for the damage to the bridge by a ship, yet the project is stalled in disagreements with different parties involved. Even in the streets of New York, the pedestrian pavements in Brooklyn and other places are so dilapidated but no one seems to care. Suggesting that New Yorkers are also numb to infrastructure being bad as it is, just as Mumbai residents were in the old days before infrastructure became a daily priority in India in recent years, following China's example. ...

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The NYT editorial reacting the day after Mrs Clinton's remark about a pattern emerging in primaries in Pennsylvania and Indiana against Obama that showed white working class Americans supported her. "Yes, there is a pattern- a familiar and unpleasant one," is how the NYT reacted.