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...largest automaker, has 11 U.S. plants and expects to open a truck factory in San Antonio, Texas, in 2006. European brands, including BMW and Mercedes-Benz, are also growing. CAR estimates that foreign automakers operating in the U.S. add 1.8 million jobs to the American economy, including white-collar, dealership and supplier positions--from partsmakers to the bartenders at post-whistle watering holes...
...trailer, etc.) on a one-stop basis. Morris had opened a retail store on the site principally to give fishermen something to do when they came to Springfield to pick up their boats. In 1981, Morris changed outdoor retailing by establishing a combination sporting-goods store, museum and boat dealership that became the biggest tourist attraction in the state...
...mail to complete a $15 million to $20 million contract to provide from 1,000 to 2,000 trailers. Under FEMA guidelines, he'll have to wait until all the trailers are delivered down South before he gets his check. The only real snag was that after the dealership had come up with the idea of filling each trailer with donations of food and clothing, FEMA informed Unger that rules stipulated that each trailer had to arrive empty. Instead, Unger is sending the supplies down by tractor trailers to church groups doing relief work in the area...
...minivan owners. It had to be done. Neither of our old vehicles had what it takes to handle two car seats, two parents, the odd grandparent and the sheer tonnage of baby paraphernalia required for even quick trips to the grocery. Still, it took multiple visits to the dealership before I came to terms with the sociological enormity of what we were about to do. In America, you are what you drive. And as everyone knows, cruising around in a shiny new minivan definitively announces to your fellow road warriors, "I am an unabashed suburban breeder...
...Internet has already made many other financial transactions cheaper and simpler. Stockbrokers once routinely charged $250 for trades that can now be done for $15 on the Web. People who buy a car or truck online pay an average of 2% less than those who walk into a dealership, studies show. Travel deals are so prevalent online that hotel owners normally offer lowest-rate guarantees, which drive down the average price of a room. Yet for the most part, the real estate industry has managed to shield itself. "The way real estate is sold hasn't changed since Eisenhower...