The new panel would have to act before the Thanksgiving congressional recess inlateNovember or government programs including Defense and Medicare would face automatic, across-the-board cuts, the person said.
General Motors (GM) announced inlateNovember that it would link Siri to the new infotainment systems in its two smallest cars, Chevrolet Spark and Sonic.
Mr. Butler then traveled more than 7, 000 miles in a weeklong period inlateNovember and early December to San Diego, New York and Dallas to try to persuade pilots to approve it and finish American's stand-alone restructuring.
The bank said former Bank of England deputy governor David Walker will be its new chairman effective November 1 replacing Marcus Agius who resigned following the Libor scandal that broke inlate June.