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...vehicles running, they often try to find alternatives to dealer-based service. The small business website Manta lists 135, 967 auto repair shops in its directory. There are probably many more than that but getting an accurate count of businesses that may employ only one or two people is almost impossible. The National Automobile Dealers Association, in contrast, reports that about 21,000 car dealers employed 1.1 million people in 2006. Since there are probably more than 100 million cars and light trucks on the road, many people are getting their cars repaired at some place other than...
...lesson which is not likely to be unlearned. People are going to keep cars longer and fewer new cars are going to be sold. America's car companies are in a better position to refurbish or repair cars and trucks than local mechanics are. Their service departments have almost uniformly well-trained people. They have access to new parts from the manufacturer. They have the ability to schedule and control the flow of service to customers. They can loan customers cars. And, they are literally dying for business...
...companies are in the business of selling parts, and, by the way, making refurbished engines. Parts suppliers to the major car companies are insolvent in some cases and almost every firm in the industry is facing years of declining demand...
...news, when it came out last month, seemed shocking enough: Philip Alston, a U.N. special rapporteur who had come to Kenya, concluded that there exists in the country a "systematic, widespread and carefully planned strategy" of executions by police, almost certainly conducted with the consent of their top brass. Then two weeks later, two human-rights activists were gunned down in what appeared to be a well-planned attack as they sat in traffic just a few yards from State House, the home of President Mwai Kibaki. Many Kenyans immediately suspected the police were involved; the two slain...
...what began as a peaceful, almost playful demonstration got nasty very fast. First, some protesters commandeered four tractor trailers, including a tanker filled with fuel, and blocked traffic along a Nairobi highway. Three police officers who tried to talk to the students retreated under a hail of stones. Some of the protesters were clearly spoiling for a fight, chanting, "Tear gas, tear gas, we demand tear gas!" As the protest wore on, people working downtown locked themselves behind security gates in stores and restaurants and peered anxiously through the grilles...