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...drill Detroit, not the Arctic" campaign will find some support this week when the National Academy of Sciences releases a long-awaited study. The report, toned down after the auto industry protested that raising fuel-efficiency standards, by making cars lighter, makes vehicles less safe, is still likely to conclude that fuel efficiency can be increased at least 25% with existing technology...
...everybody?s afraid of - July unemployment - and makes a few consumer-related stops along the way. Tuesday brings personal income for June and Consumer Confidence for July (and the Chicago Purchasing Managers Index for July, which?ll be bad news for manufacturing, but you knew that). Wednesday gives us auto and truck sales for July, and construction spending for June and National Association Purchasing Managers for July (see CPMI, above). Thursday sets the table with weekly Initial Unemployment Claims and a new four-week rolling average to chew our nails over. And Friday brings it all back home with July...
There hasn't been much in Darrell Wayne Condit's sad life to distinguish him. The Florida drifter's rap sheet is a pathetic recitation of offenses so mundane--drugs, robbery, auto theft, driving with a suspended license--they would barely have made the local news pages. And yet there he was last week on the front page of the New York Post, stringy haired and glassy eyed under a headline demanding: ASK HIM. How did he come to figure in the sensational case of the nation's most famous missing person? Was there any evidence that he had anything...
...Michel (Laurent Lucas) in the men's room of a highway rest stop. Harry claims they were at school together. Michel can't recall him, but he lets him into his life anyway. And why not? He has a miserable job, a sarcastic wife, three whining daughters and an auto that lacks air conditioning. Harry has mysterious amounts of time and money to lavish on them. Michel suddenly gets a new car, his grasping parents soon disappear, and the rest of his family begins gratifyingly to perk up. By the end of the film, Michel and his family have everything...
...despite what you may have heard about strong auto sales lately, SUVs, minivans and light trucks are about the only way Detroit makes any money these days - and that just happens to be the sector under heaviest attack from Japanese brands. And the U.S. carmakers losing ground. Just this quarter, General Motors registered a 73% decline in net income, in party because of competition from Japanse car companies for the coveted SUV market. Congressmen from the Motor City don't ask too much of the auto industry in the middle of a manufacturing recession and overall slowdown...