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Nissan is basing its strategy on making electric vehicles that cost the same as regular cars when fuel costs are taken into account. To bring costs down, it's asking governments around the world for tax breaks and other incentives.

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The need to conserve capital in the current recession, combined with the uncertainty of future cash flow, has made buybacks too high-risk for most corporations.

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As Wal-Mart's new CEO Mike Duke well knows, it is one thing to create star-studded councils and make high-level appointments. It's quite another thing to actually deliver on his promise to promote diversity.

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The private-sector job machine has almost completely stalled over the past 10 years. Without a decade of growing government support from rising health and education spending and soaring budget deficits, the labor market would have been flat on its back.

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Some people said we should call this decade the oughts, for the two zeros. Looking back, it's clear that the real oughts of the 2000s were that we ought not to have paid so much for Internet stocks and that we ought not to have paid so much for big houses with granite countertops.

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VCs are moving their money away from energy generation projects, such as wind farms and solar parks, because funding those businesses is just too expensive for investors already struggling due to the global downturn.

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