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...other time in their history. "They now have the incentive to buy vehicles through long-term-financing programs," gushes Jackson Schneider, head of the National Association of Automotive Vehicle Manufacturers, whose members have added 27,000 direct jobs in the past three years. "They can more easily afford the installments...
None of these changes are technically difficult. Collectively they could dramatically reduce the oil intensity of developed countries' economies while serving as role models for the rapidly emerging new economies that cannot afford to use oil as wastefully as we have used...
...omnibus immigration bill. We hope Congress recognizes the urgency of the situation and passes a cap increase in time to raise the number of visas issued beginning in April, 2008. Today, competition for highly skilled workers is truly global. If it wishes to stay competitive, the United States cannot afford to continue its backward policies. The government should increase the quotas as soon as possible in order to avoid losing another generation of some of the world’s most talented workers...
...effective campus rep programs like Kiehl’s can be. “I go back and forth on this,” he says. “The objective is to introduce people to the brand and the benefits of the brand, so that if they can afford to start using it now they do, but even if they can’t it becomes an ‘aspirational’ brand.”But at some point, “aspirational” becomes too impractical—especially for a consumer group so driven...
...exaggerating. The cheap fares are luring Asians away from rickety buses, inefficient trains and traffic-choked highways. Laykha Boonlerd, 26, a bank employee in Kuala Lumpur, could never before afford to fly to Bangkok to see her family and instead made an excruciating 24-hour pilgrimage by bus and train. But with a one-way ticket on AirAsia costing only $26, she took wing in July for the first time. "I will travel much more with AirAsia," she says. Indeed, about half the travelers on Asia's budget airlines are first-time flyers like Boonlerd...