General Motors
Jul 12 2009, Marco Villa

After years of arduous reorganization and a hellish effort to avoid bankruptcy, at the cost of tens of billions in federal bailout money; American auto giant did eventually follow in the footsteps of Chrysler and declare bankruptcy. The executives had...

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