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General Motors' two-degree turnaround
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By Rick Newman

July 28, 2006 Comment

Rick Wagoner might have been boasting too soon. When General Motors recently announced second-quarter earnings that surprised and impressed Wall Street, the CEO crowed, "Conventional wisdom is that you can't turn a ship as big as GM around quickly. We aim to prove that conventional wisdom wrong."

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Detroit blows more smoke on hybrids
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By Rick Newman

July 3, 2006 Comment

So now that hybrids have enjoyed their moment in the sun, the obligatory backlash seems to be forming. Ford Motor Co., struggling to return to profitability, recently backed away from its bold, less-than-year-old plan to build 250,000 hybrids a year by 2010.

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Justin Ewers is a senior editor in the Money & Business section at U.S. News & World Report, where he covers small business, Silicon Valley, and executive management. Most recently, he has written about eBay's growth strategy and Garmin's dominance of the GPS market. His cover stories for the magazine have tackled subjects ranging from Abraham Lincoln's boyhood to the latest trends in college admissions. He also reviews books occasionally for the Washington Post. Ewers earned both a bachelor of arts and a master of arts in history at Stanford University.