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Dec 4, 2019 ETC
Classic Blue is Pantone Color Institute’s color of the year

Aka Pantone 19-4052, for everything from housewares to cars

In these uneasy times, as we move along to a new decade, the Pantone Color Institute has reached back in time to calming, confident Classic Blue as its color of the year for 2020. The color is an anchor offering stability, constancy and connection, said Laurie Pressman, vice president of the global purveyors of color consulting, trendspotting and analysis. Akin to maritime blue — not indigo and brighter than navy — Classic Blue evokes a feeling of vast expanse, Pressman said of the shade also

Associated Press
Dec 4, 2019 Official
Former UAW official pleads guilty to accepting kickbacks

He is also a former GM board member

Former United Auto Workers vice president Joseph Ashton pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to commit money laundering and wire fraud as part of a wide-ranging federal corruption probe into the union. Ashton, a former General Motors Co board member, was charged last month with conspiring with other union officials to receive "hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks" according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit. Ashton, when asked by the judge whether he

Reuters
Dec 4, 2019 Official
Local UAW leaders recommend membership approve FCA contract

Higher profit-sharing and other details of the deal

Union leaders from Fiat Chrysler factories are sending a new four-year contract to a membership vote. The 47,000 members of the United Auto Workers union at the company will vote on the deal starting Friday. Local leaders assembled on Wednesday in Detroit to go over the pact, which includes a $9,000 bonus per worker upon ratification.

Associated Press
Dec 4, 2019 Breaking
Elon Musk, in day 2 of testimony, says he wrote 'pedo guy' tweet 'off the cuff'

And now we know his net worth

Elon Musk, wrapping up two days of testimony at his defamation trial on Wednesday, insisted his "pedo guy" Twitter message at the heart of the case was an "off-the-cuff" insult hurriedly written in anger and not meant to be taken literally. The chief executive of electric carmaker Tesla Inc and founder of rocket company SpaceX also acknowledged in a packed Los Angeles federal courtroom his net worth, mostly from stock holdings in those two companies, was about $20 billion (£15.59 billion). Mus

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