Word: cafes
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...CAFE standards: A arduously negotiated, ever-so-slight increase in SUV and light-truck fuel efficiency did make it into the Republican bill, which requires Detroit to set standards that would save 5 billion gallons of oil between 2004 and 2010, but doesn?t specify those standards (most number-crunchings have it at a measly extra...
...Cars. One way to decrease U.S. dependence on foreign oil is to decrease consumption, and one way for the government to do that is increasing Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards for SUVs and light trucks. Those vehicles have long been subject to lower standards because of their supposed use mainly for business activity. But these days, as Detroit reaps its most abundant profits selling the vehicles to soccer moms and dads, there?s a push to tighten standards and let carmakers start using better engine technology to make up the difference...
...Bush has largely stayed mum on the issue, sensitive to Detroit?s mortal fear of anything that cuts into its already precarious profit margins. But aggressive CAFE standards wouldn?t bankrupt the industry, and loudly acceding to Democrats? efforts to raise them significantly could surprise Bush?s critics and put the president in a good environmental light - at least outside of Michigan...
Nearby in Manhattan sits the new ING Direct cafe. The casually clad employees can't conduct transactions but can serve lattes and answer questions. "Is it pronounced I-N-G or Ing?" a first timer asks. (The former.) With a hip sound track and stacks of ING Direct clothes for sale, the cafe feels more like Banana Republic than a bank. "It's not supposed to be avant-garde," says CEO Arkadi Kuhlmann. "We're basically saying banking should be as uncomplicated as a cup of coffee...
Then came a chain of Internet cafes called easyEverything, which pack 'em in by the hundreds for 24-hour cheap access to the Net ($.25 to $3 an hour). There are 20 in Europe. A new cafe in New York City's Times Square each week attracts more than 30,000 customers--students, people between jobs, travelers--with more U.S. outlets to come. The latest is his cheapo car-rental agency, easyCar, where prices start at $13 a day. "I like to invest in the brand," he says, which he jokes means "being up front about it, loud, and hope...