Word: auto
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...offer older consumers cheaper rates for home insurance. Back then, home insurance in Britain was sold on a one-price-fits-all basis. Saga correctly reckoned that older homeowners were less risky to insure, so their premiums could be lower. Saga applied the same formula to sell low-cost auto insurance and then broadened to offer a full range of insurance products. Of course, other insurers use age as a pricing criterion, so Saga also stresses not only value but customer service...
...argument of those who believe the euro pushed up inflation significantly is that there's almost no supporting evidence. Italy provides a good example because, in 1993, it experienced a sharp deterioration in household income following a massive lira devaluation. Tens of thousands of people lost their jobs, auto and retail sales crashed and there were other sizable - and measurable - effects on the economy as a whole...
...buying car-parts maker Lear? I thought the American auto industry was dying...
...fighting it out with 15, from Nissan, Toyota and Volkswagen to local players like Chery. Tan provides all kinds of extras to keep Chengdu drivers in Buicks, such as handing out hair dryers, rice cookers and other gifts to car buyers and computer games to entertain those waiting for auto repairs. "A few years ago, customers would come in with bags of cash begging you to sell them a car," Tan says. Those days are over...
...vocalists Patrick Stump and Pete Wentz wield the same saccharine croon. Granted, the disc is stuffed with studio effects; I’d be shocked to learn that the drummer can keep time without a click track or that the vocalists can keep pitch without three producers and Auto-Tune. Yet this is the band’s formula, and they follow it well throughout the record. In many ways, the group recalls Huey Lewis and The News circa 1983; rockers uncomfortable with innovation, they stick to tried-and-true trends. They trot out the cut-time bridge, the major...