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...tests account for faster driving, acceleration and deceleration and air-conditioning use - in other words, the way most real people drive. As a result fuel-economy ratings have dropped about 12% for city driving and about 8% for highway driving. When the new tests kicked in, a 2006 Toyota Prius, for instance, went from having a 55 m.p.g. combined efficiency rating to 46 m.p.g. - overnight...
...That’s why some people thought I wanted to be mayor; so I could have more fire trucks,” says Purcell, who first learned how to drive behind the wheel of the fire truck...
Dollar Days. If you're planning to drive to Florida, consider renting a car from Thrifty - for just $1 a day. If you pick the car up in select cities, such as Chicago, Milwaukee, Cincinnati or Kansas City, and return it to select cities in the Sunshine State, it'll cost you less to rent the car than it will to fill the tank...
...replacement Kelly did not fare so badly either, going 5-of-6 passing for 43 yards and rushing three times for 22 yards. He also notched the Lion’s only touchdown, scoring from 10 yards out to finish off a 10-play, 80-yard drive...
...when the board of postal-machine maker Pitney Bowes decided to analyze risk more systematically, the company listed 16 categories of risk--from supply chain to reputation--and assigned a senior executive to be in charge of each one in an attempt to drive the new ethos into the corporate culture. What was important was that the firm also made a deliberate decision that risk was not something that could be reduced to a number. "We have a much more holistic discussion about a business and why we have it," says vice president and treasurer Helen Shan. "It becomes strategic...