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		<title>GM chief engineer says European business too intertwined to sever from global operations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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GM chief engineer relieved Opel staying with GM

DETROIT — When General Motors Co.&#8217;s board halted the sale of the company&#8217;s European car business last week, no one was happier than the automaker&#8217;s chief engineer.
Engineers with the Ruesselsheim, Germany-based Opel have designed the basics of GM&#8217;s new compact and midsize cars that are sold across the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Car plant in Tunica may be topic for rumored special session of Mississippi Legislature</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Wagster Pettus</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[JACKSON, Miss. — Several Mississippi lawmakers say they&#8217;ve heard a special session is possible in the next couple of weeks, with speculation that it would involve incentives for a proposed auto plant in Tunica County, but Gov. Haley Barbour has not made an announcement.

Barbour usually keeps his special session plans a secret until he is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aided by retraining programs, auto engineers and designers look outside industry for new work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DETROIT — After Jerry Tester lost his job as a contract engineer at General Motors, it soon became clear that the struggling auto industry wouldn&#8217;t be the place where he would work again.

The 45-year-old spent months unemployed before a tip from a friend led him to the Talascend Global Training Academy, where he took a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Honk if you see a smiley face: Cars trying to put best face forward in down market</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha Critchell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — Even with all the bad news that has pounded the auto industry, carmakers are trying to put on happy faces. Literally: They are incorporating smiles and other cheerful characteristics into their designs.

The hope is that consumers will warm to vehicles that might reflect their own personalities and feelings.
&#8220;&#8216;Charm&#8217; — I thought this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20 blind people are able to test drive dune buggy designed by Va. Tech students</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AP</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Several blind people were able to get behind the wheel of a new high-tech vehicle designed by Virginia Tech engineering students.

Twenty blind people took turns maneuvering the retrofitted dune buggy Friday in a parking lot at the University of Maryland. The test drive capped a National Federation for the Blind summer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The keys to General Motors&#8217; success: What the automaker must do after emerging from Chapter 11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 06:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Krisher</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DETROIT — Even after emerging from bankruptcy protection, the new General Motors still faces some of the same troubles that haunted the old one, which piled up more than $80 billion in losses during the past four years and still needs government aid to survive.

So how does a company that has not made money since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion designer Zandra Rhodes crashes car into San Diego store, injuring customer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN DIEGO — A celebrity fashion designer has crashed her car through the front window of a hardware store in San Diego, injuring a customer inside.

Zandra Rhodes, whose clients have included celebrities such as Princess Diana, confirms she was in the crash Tuesday but didn&#8217;t want to discuss the cause of the accident.
San Diego fire [...]]]></description>
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