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...biggest beneficiary of Toyota's accelerator recall? Its longtime rival Honda. "We see Honda as being the best positioned across a broad range of vehicles to gain," write analysts from Deutsche Bank. "Honda competes at or near the top of the market in five impacted segments, models which account for 80% of sales...
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...need a metric for our times," says Nic Marks, a Fellow at the London-based New Economics Foundation, and founder of its Centre for Well-Being. "During World War II production was important. After the war was the need for rebuilding. We're way past that. We need to account for our ecological footprint and see how we're operating on the planet. The GDP is often precisely wrong in that it's not measuring progress, just the making of stuff. The HPI is striving to measure a better future." One appeal of the GDP, says Marks, has been that...
...thinks back on the uproar of Seymour's wedding day. Then in 1959 came the epic-length "Seymour: An Introduction." In a story full of all kinds of narrative wanderings and digressions, Buddy thinks back on his saintly, much-loved older brother, years after his suicide, and tries to account for his odd radiance...
...slip away as it turns from a current event to a past tragedy. The truth remains that people are dying in Haiti, and that these deaths are avoidable. In a state so fragile, lives can be saved for the amount of a book. Our actions now can, and must, account for past transgressions. We have a responsibility to all Haitians to provide them with the tools to rebuild, the tools we have denied them for two hundred years...