Word: auto
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...This isn?t the first time Nader?s been alone. He came to prominence more than 35 years ago as lonely champion of auto safety regulations that Americans now take for granted. Nader concedes some of the attacks are "nasty," but claims not to take them personally. He sniffs that the left has grown soft, and says that people have "desperately low expectation levels from politicians, so they accept the least of the worst...
...this as something of a dead cat bounce. Automakers have been heavily discounting their inventories to clear them out, and I think that's why auto sales have held up so well. This number seems to me to be evidence that the discounting worked so well that they're having to rev up again...
...free-trade area could turn some of NAFTA's winners into losers. The Mexican auto-parts industry, for instance, exports more than 60% of its production to the U.S. But Enrique Zambrano Benitez, CEO of Proeza, a partsmaker that employs 5,000 in Monterrey, Mexico, is anxious about Brazil's big parts indus-try, which currently faces U.S. barriers that would fall in the proposed free-trade area...
...some measures, the program is working spectacularly, with mass-transit ridership increasing 30%, auto commutes to downtown falling 15%, and solid-waste disposal from homes shrinking 13%. But the city's CO2 output has actually risen, mostly because of an unanticipated population boom in the Pacific Northwest. Portland is undeterred, however--pointing out that its European partners, which were spared such demographic shifts, have had success with similar strategies. The city is taking a second look at its own program and revising it as necessary. Efforts are also under way in other U.S. localities, including Miami-Dade County, which eliminated...
...take a year or two off after college; a growing number are folks like me who pursued another career before deciding to become a doctor. My classmates are as old as 46 and include a former actress, a bond trader, an engineer, a lawyer, the manager of an auto-parts store, a single mom and a tax expert for the U.S. Treasury. Stanford's med school welcomed us because it--along with Northwestern, Yale and the University of California, San Francisco, among others--believes real-world experience helps make better doctors...