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...Fliakos, "like a huge tax break" for the U.S.--or at least for those Americans who are not in the oil business. February's dramatic .4% fall in the Consumer Price Index, the biggest decrease since 1953, was largely the result of dropping oil prices. Says Maryann Keller, an auto analyst at Vilas- Fischer Associates: "The real impact of declining oil prices is what you're going to do with the extra money in your wallet after you've visited the gas station. Maybe you're going to go out and buy a pair of shoes. Maybe you're going...
...across the country last week offered cash prizes to the service-station operator who "bid" to sell his product at the lowest price. In Milwaukee, the Park Plaza Mobil station sold off 8,000 gal. of regular unleaded at 36.9 cents per gal. In Concord, Calif., the Sun Valley Auto Wash, a Chevron station, offered gasoline for .1 cents per gal., while in Diamond Bar, Calif., George Benitez's Shell service station went one better by offering for one day up to 30 gal. of regular leaded per customer at .00l cents per gal. Then, overwhelmed by the task...
Landing a job at the new Mazda auto plant in Flat Rock, Mich., will be something like getting into an Ivy League college, only tougher. About 130,000 workers have applied for 3,100 production slots at the Japanese company's first U.S. factory, which will open in 1987. Applicants first had to present their qualifications by mail. Selected job seekers will now undergo in person an unusually exhaustive battery of tests that will rate their reading, verbal, mechanical and problem-solving skills. They will also be tested for the presence of drugs in their systems...
...Auto-industry observers were impressed with how quickly Hyundai responded to the situation. Still, it was not the kind of debut that a carmaker dreams about...
...Last October Sherri Clark, an 18-year-old sorority pledge, died at a party sponsored by two sororities when after drinking heavily, she fell from a bridge. And in Texas, Kappa Alpha Rusty Combes, 26, won a $21 million out- of-court settlement for injuries sustained in an auto accident after a fraternity blowout. Along with the plain human tragedy, notes Cincinnati Attorney Robert Manley, such disasters have "the potential for bankrupting every fraternity in the country." The societies know it, and the bottom line of ruinous insurance payouts and premiums has pushed them to clean up their...