Specifically, the Bingaman-Shelby amendment would greatly retard progress being made on space-based interceptors known as Brilliant Pebbles in favor of a limited deployment of a single layer of ground-based interceptor missiles and open-ended research on more exotic directed energy technologies devices that would come on-line (if at all) far down-stream.
Maruti Suzuki is currently adding to its production at Manesar, where a third assembly line for 250, 000 vehicles a year will go on stream before 2014.
In the face of a near-constant stream of buyout rumors the past couple weeks, Palm boss Jon Rubinstein is holding the line he's held ever since he's taken the helm -- well most of the line, anyway.
Chrysler's strength demonstrates that even a North American legacy auto company can achieve durable success by coming up with a continual stream of new or improved vehicles--the Jeep division has great new products on line and in the pipeline--and by paying painstaking attention to costs.