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On his first trip to India, and just days after receiving a "shellacking" in the midterm elections, attributed in part to continued high unemployment, President Obama announced several "landmark" trade deals the White House says will create tens of thousands of jobs back home.
Several of the 20 deals - worth $10 billion and expected to create 53,670 U.S. jobs - were already in the works, but the White House says the president's visit to India helped solidify them.
The commercial deals include: the purchase of 33 737s from Boeing by India's SpiceJet Airlines; the preliminary agreement between Boeing and the Indian Air Force on the purchase of 10 C17s; the Indian military's plans to buy aircraft engines from General Electric; and plans for Harley-Davidson Motor Company, to open a new assembly plant in India.
The president announced the deals in remarks to U.S and Indian business executives, after having meet with entrepreneurs, and then with American CEOs, including Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric. Immelt, whose company also worked a deal to provide 2400 megawatts of gas turbine technology, the largest gas-turbine order in the history of India,
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Sun Nov 07, 2010 12:56 pm
benji wrote:So the baseless rumor has gone up from $200 million to $2 billion now?
Sun Nov 07, 2010 12:57 pm
Oznogrd wrote:Since when did "some shit i read from some guy in fucking india" become newsworthy?
Sun Nov 07, 2010 12:58 pm
Sun Nov 07, 2010 1:10 pm
puttincomputers wrote:Oznogrd wrote:Since when did "some shit i read from some guy in fucking india" become newsworthy?
When did global warming become newsworthy?
Mon Nov 08, 2010 12:03 am
Lamrock wrote:puttincomputers wrote:Oznogrd wrote:Since when did "some shit i read from some guy in fucking india" become newsworthy?
When did global warming become newsworthy?
When it started to negatively affect the Earth?