Hitachi, in flat-panel TV business, reduce fixed costs through the second half of fiscal 2009 from fiscal 2007, the reduction of overseas operations, including measures to improve profitability through the use of procurement, building a business model that specializes in technology management with low-risk differentiated has been working on.

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The dollar rate is fixed each day by taking estimates from a panel, currently comprising 18 banks, of what they think they would have to pay to borrow if they needed money.

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Teresa Sarmina said the panel says it has developed "firm, fixed opinions" and "entrenched positions, " rendering it unable to return a verdict after 12 days of deliberations.

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