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GM To Begin Repaying Aid By Year-End

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

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WASHINGTON — General Motors Co. will begin paying back $6.7 billion in U.S. government loans by the end of 2009 and could pay off that full amou...

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GM's New TV Commercials -- Do They Grab You?

Steve Parker | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business

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Steve Parker

I like the fact that GM, having suffered from a terrible inferiority complex for the past 20 years (often based, in truth, on some pretty bad product) seems, at least for its latest commercial, to have gotten some guts back.

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Whitacre, New GM Chairman: "I Don't Know Anything About Cars"

bloomberg.com | Amy Thomson and Katie Merx | Posted 07.11.2009 | Business

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No car experience is necessary to take a top spot at the bankrupt icon of Detroit's automobile industry. Believe it or not, the newly appointed ch...

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ED WHITACRE: Former AT&T Executive Will Lead New GM Board

washingtonpost.com | Kendra Marr | Posted 07.10.2009 | Home

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General Motors announced this morning that Edward E. Whitacre Jr., the former chairman and chief executive of AT&T, will become chairman of the board ...

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Edward Whitacre: Sued By Civil Liberties Group When At AT&T

forbes.com | Liz Moyer and Joshua Zumbrun | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business

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London - For whom the bell tolls? It is small surprise anti-terrorism measures have an impact on open society, though resentment breeds if the measure...

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Edward Whitacre Jr.: New GM Chairman Is Former AT&T CEO

Yahoo! Finance | Tom Krisher, AP Auto Writer | Posted 07.10.2009 | Business

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UPDATE: Edward Whitacre was the son of a railroad engineer, who grew up trapping frogs and shooting rabbits, according to Business Week. DETROIT (A...

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Is It Fair to Call Bill Daley a Lobbyist? Well, Actually, Yes It Is

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 10.24.2008 | Chicago

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Carol Felsenthal

In 2005 I published a profile of Bill Daley in Chicago magazine, where I'm a contributing editor. I looked back at my research and at various drafts of the article and here's what I found.

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