The Associated Press: GM rides cost cuts, new model sales to 1Q profit
cost cuts + new model sales = Q1 profits
Though I'm willing to believe that consumers have gained confidence at the same time. I think the timing was good for GM to turn things around. I think things are stabilizing in the American economy and that recovery is already underway. The signs are there, anyway.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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