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The grim forecast from Toyota is the latest sign of the global auto industry’s slowdown after years of profits and expansion.
Although they have ample credit, foreign-owned carmakers with U.S. operations are facing slowing sales.
As the bank faces a sharp slowdown in the emerging markets where it earns the bulk of its profit, many investors are questioning HSBC’s ability to maintain its exalted standing.
Police departments across the country say arrests are 10 percent to 20 percent higher this year than last.
The university is grappling with a sense of betrayal that goes beyond the $110 million it says it lost with Bernard L. Madoff.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 17, 2008, covering December 23, 2008.
Britney Spears
Taylor Swift
Beyonce
Kanye West
Nickelback
2008A coup d'état occurs in Guinea hours after the death of President Lansana Conté.[†]
On 23 December 2008, a coup d'état occurred in Guinea, shortly after the death of long-time president Lansana Conté. A junta called the National Council for Democracy and Development, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, seized power and announced that it planned to rule the country for two years prior to a new presidential election. Camara did indeed step down after Alpha Condé was elected in the 2010 election.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]