The group's board of directors includes former White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and top campaign officials such as Stephanie Cutter and Julianna Smoot.

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Mr Kleinfeld got the top job because of his reputation as a tough cost-cutter who pulled the company's American subsidiary out of the red.

ECONOMIST: Siemens

In those years, in fact, his main pitch was a hard, high fastball that seemed to burst out of his hand and run up toward the top of the strike zone, the precise opposite of a cutter.

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I'm just an average American, a cookie-cutter, average, United States-loving American and I want to make sure we stay on top as a superpower economically.

BBC: Swing states cook up trouble for Obama