Palomares made a decisive break over the Cow and Calf climb on the run for home and still had enough to hold off Stubbe and fellow Spaniard David Blanco Rodriguez to the line.

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While General Motors managed to hold the line on fixed costs in its tentative contract with the United Auto Workers union, the company will still be dishing out plenty of cash to workers over the next four years.

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