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...dealer-based service. The small business website Manta lists 135, 967 auto repair shops in its directory. There are probably many more than that but getting an accurate count of businesses that may employ only one or two people is almost impossible. The National Automobile Dealers Association, in contrast, reports that about 21,000 car dealers employed 1.1 million people in 2006. Since there are probably more than 100 million cars and light trucks on the road, many people are getting their cars repaired at some place other than a new car dealership...
...otherwise recycled nature of “Miss March.” Craig Robinson’s performance as Horsedick.MPEG also ultimately succeeds, due to his typically nonchalant delivery and an awkward revelation at the movie’s end. The acting of Cregger and Moore, by contrast, is noticeably contrived. Their stilted words and staging make them appear painfully conscious that they are acting, and the plasticity of their conversations is impossible to overlook. To be sure, there is a patent attempt to flesh out the main characters’ three-dimensionality. Tucker’s secret sexual na?...
...hook up, up / I go slow / So if you want me, I don’t come cheap / Keep your hand in my hand / And your heart on your sleeve.” Clarkson’s dignified message is refreshing in contrast to the “I Kissed a Girl” pop landscape, which is especially ironic since Katy Perry co-wrote “I Do Not Hook Up.” This won’t be the first time she succeeds in making another singer’s composition her own: 2004?...
...throughout the first issue provide encouragement for surviving life's trials, and there are plenty of suggestions for how to help others in need. But many churches these days are offering practical help to their members, holding financial-planning seminars and rediscovering the values of thrift and stewardship. In contrast, of the 144 pages of Warren's premiere issue, only one includes specific suggestions for weathering the recession, in the form of a sidebar, "4 Blessed Ways to Get By." Warren will need to apply his golden touch once again to convince readers that one of those blessed ways...
...also a contrast to the increasingly negative attitude French society has demonstrated towards immigration since conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy came to power on a pledge to battle illegal arrivals. As part of that effort, Sarkozy formed his current government with an unprecedented Ministry of Immigration and National Identity - a name opponents decry as suggesting the latter represents a threat to the former...