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...communications for the Automotive Service Association, which represents 8,000 independent car-repair shops in the U.S. According to an association survey, 60% of auto-repair shops said they saw an increase in '08 year-over-year sales. The average jump was 16%. (The survey was taken in August, before the financial meltdown. Auto-industry economists say repair growth slowed in the fourth quarter as customers deferred big-ticket maintenance jobs during the worst months of the downturn, and that pent-up demand will lift the numbers in '09.) (See pictures of the remains of Detroit: America's fading Motor...
...minutes of fame. I've been given a responsibility by my community to provide real leadership, not lay down in the street and get arrested once a week." - Explaining why he conducts behind-the-scenes lobbying, in addition to public protests, to advance his goals, New York Times, August...
...level Rao seeks is global. Shangri-La has confined itself mainly to its home turf of Asia, where it is a well-known brand. But now Rao, a former accountant who became CEO in August, sees opportunity in crisis. He is undertaking a wide-ranging expansion that will take Shangri-La hotels to markets as diverse as Las Vegas and Doha. In January, the company launched its first Shangri-La hotel in North America, with the opening of a 119-room property in Vancouver. Japan will see its first open in March in Tokyo, and Europe later this year...
...predicted to net her the fattest profit is her death. She had already signed up to star in another reality series (in one of the many ironies that define her life, it happened to be for a channel called Living TV) when she learned of her condition in August. Since discovering last Friday - Friday the 13th, no less - that her illness is terminal, she has secured a series of deals that will reportedly swell her sons' inheritance by ?1 million to ?1.5 million ($1.4 million to $2.1 million, roughly). These include a televised interview with America's Got Talent judge...
...Between August and December, AirTran continued to shift its flight times, including those of the original flights the Gibsons had booked, which again allowed for sufficient connection time in Atlanta. Unfortunately, the same automated system that moved the family to the earlier flight failed to move them back to their original flight. A rep for AirTran says "there really is no answer" as to why the system didn't respond...