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...success is signing up showrooms. Ford's Suzuki says he needs 700, an increase of 400, to reach his sales goal. Two years ago, he took control of a 284-outlet chain called Autorama, which he renamed Ford in May. The economy has helped him find more. Most of Japan's 17,423 dealer showrooms have exclusive ties to a sole Japanese carmaker. But the recession has put an unprecedented 41% of Japan's dealerships into the red. Some of the dealers believe adding foreign cars to their lineup can help bail them out. Says Atsushi Horigome, a Nissan dealer...
Sunday: Jubilant Seibu players give their manager the traditional bumps after destroying the Kintetsu Buffaloes 8-2. Monday: Seibu (a chain of stores, not a city) celebrates with a one-day sale. Wednesday: Giants and Dragons still neck and neck. Thursday: A heart stopper. As their pitching collapses, the Giants lose to the Yakult Swallows 6-2. One astrologer, noting the position of Mars, sees the Giants victorious in Saturday's pennant-deciding showdown with the Dragons. Saturday: Giants...
...others hooted as well, but most didn't--nobody is forcing you to chain your mouth shut...
...years. He is also fighting back with the first negative campaign of his political life. He is skeptical about Romney's job-creation claims. He has noted that while Romney says he favors universal health-care coverage, none of the part-time employees at Staples, the successful office-supplies chain that Romney helped establish, receive such coverage from the company. (Then again, part-timers usually don't.) Last week Kennedy even introduced religion into the race, demanding to know if Romney, a member of the Mormon Church, supported church policies that until 1978 excluded black men from serving as priests...
...that means Coffee Connection is in trouble, no one is saying it, probably because Starbucks acquired the whole Coffee Connection chain last spring. They remain under separate management, although Passion for Coffee: A Starbucks Coffee Cookbook recently went on sale in Coffee Connection's flagship in the Square...