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...curtail auto traffic and raise money for repairs, many park managers aim to charge higher entrance fees. As vacation destinations, the parks remain an absolute bargain, usually costing only $5 to $10 a vehicle. Half the national parks charge nothing at all. A park-service proposal to collect entry fees on a per-person basis, instead of per vehicle, would raise about $73 million to help offset the repeated budget cuts that have decimated the ranks of rangers and depleted maintenance programs...
...have begun to compete more successfully against foreign imports; American cars last year accounted for 79% of domestic sales, as opposed to 69% in 1987, the year of the industry's worst performance against imports. A prime reason for this recovery is better products. Since J.D. Power & Associates, the auto industry's leading research firm, began tracking consumer satisfaction eight years ago, customers' ratings of the quality of U.S. cars have gone up 34%. On the other hand, satisfaction with how those cars were sold and serviced rose only 22%. This discrepancy worries Big Three officials, who want customers...
...this upward blip an accident or a reward for good behavior? Gill does not know for sure, and neither, at this point, do the many observers who are pondering what has become the auto industry's most intriguing question: Will the era of skinned customers give way to the age of the golden fleeced...
...More women are dying on U.S. highways than ever before. Auto-safety experts cite an increase in the number of working women who drive during rush hour as well as their preference for smaller cars...
...epithets of his own, two of the men drew handguns. "All of a sudden, we heard gunfire, and then Escobar was on the ground, groaning and clutching his chest," said Jorge Arango, a witness. Escobar had been shot 12 times. One of the assailants reportedly said, "Thanks for the auto-goal, you son of a bitch." The killers then took off in a Toyota pickup truck. Escobar was pronounced dead 45 minutes later...