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Indeed, after an extended drought, Nissan is roaring back with what Ghosn calls a "product offensive." New models include the redesigned Sentra sedan, the subcompact Versa hatchback and, coming next year, a crossover called Rogue. At the Los Angeles Auto Show on Nov. 29, Nissan plans to unveil a coupe version of the Altima, due to go on sale next summer. "When you put so much energy and investment in, you're always nervous," says Ghosn. "Until you see the first few months of sales, you have doubts...
...strength, something’s got to give when the Ivy League’s 2006 rushing leader faces a defensive line that has yet to allow a single player over 100 yards this season. McLeod is fast, strong, and determined to break a half-decade long Bulldog drought against Harvard and bring the league title back to New Haven for the first time since 1999. But if senior tackle Mike Berg has anything to say about it, the celebration won’t take place this year. He and sophomore tackle Matt Curtis patrol the middle, while sophomore...
...unsustainable one? It's a judgment that has been made on entire industries in the past, when governments removed or cut the tariffs that protected the manufacturing sector. Why prop up farmers who are bad managers or whose poor practices on unproductive land are hurting the environment? The signals drought policy sends to good farmers are certainly mixed. And how come a 50-year-old waterside worker or factory machinist is obliged to re-train or relocate to an area where there are jobs, while the yeoman farmer is a protected species...
...emerging drought debate, some environmentalists and scientists are taking the place of the hard men of economics. Howard, once known for being dogmatic about his own causes, does not warm to their arguments. Professor Peter Cullen, of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, says Australians have been slow to realize that some places are permanently in drought. "The continuous drip feeding of drought relief just helps people with little hope of recovery to hang on a bit longer," he wrote in the Sydney Morning Herald. "It seems designed to maximize their misery and the land degradation they cause as they...
Pictures of drought-stricken land, higher temperatures, water restrictions and dying suburban gardens have become part of the voter's psyche. Even a global-warming skeptic like Howard can read the shift in the electorate's fears; he and his intimates have adjusted their thinking and public words. With an election expected next year, Howard's team are devising an environmental platform based on water policy, rural land care and alternative energy sources. Howard has traveled widely in the bush. Farmers are one of his touchstones, and more measures to help them are expected this week. But when Howard talks...