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...France and Germany were anyway united after 1945 by a common enemy in the shape of the Soviet Union. Nuclear weapons added a further constraint on military aggression....
...The CRS says that vehicle parts exported to Canada and Mexico often return to the US to be incorporated into the finished vehicles....
...Person in the news Who is it? Valdis Dombrovskis, the EU’s financial regulation chief Why are they in the news?...
...Solar’s price fall was especially steep after a Chinese manufacturing boom spurred global over-supply....
...The motors are used in the Atlas V rocket that the United Launch Alliance uses to lift the US’s most sensitive spy satellites into space....
...Meanwhile, Russian threats to withhold a key rocket motor from the US in response to US sanctions over the Ukraine crisis prompted soul-searching about whether the US could produce an alternative motor....
...Also they are still manufacturing CDs, which made up more than half of global sales last year....
...In Ohio, 20,200 new manufacturing jobs have been created in the past year....
...Coca-Cola nestles close to Ford; General Motors is down the road from Exxon-Mobil. Of course, the majority are not really there – in more than the most minimal physical sense....
...When Barcelona beat Manchester United 2-0 to claim this year’s European football championship, Spanish prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was among the first to congratulate club president Joan...
...Unless, that is, potential customers can get their hands on credit and recover the thrill of showing off a new motor – something even the most interventionist government might struggle to revive....
...He likens it to the way Toyota gained competitive advantage in the global motor industry in the 1980s with its “lean” manufacturing methods....
...A highlight of Girsky’s time on Wall Street has been the dinner that he organises each March on the eve of the New York motor show....
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