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Location was also probably a factor in Toyota's decision. It's very expensive to operate a plant in California, notes a senior executive with another Japanese automaker. Toyota can pretty easily shift production of the compact Corollas and Tacoma pickup trucks to other plants in Canada and Texas. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...Perham, who was just 16 when he set sail on his nine-month expedition around the world, believes age shouldn't be a determining factor when it comes to deciding whether someone can try to follow his accomplishment. "I think it's right for the Netherlands to state their views, but in the end, it should still be Laura and her parents' choice," he tells TIME...
...another indigenous, undocumented migrant from Oaxaca. After she was deported, the Oaxaca state government's Institute for Attention to Migrants fought successfully to have the twins repatriated to her in Mexico this summer. In such cases, says the SPLC's Bauer, a lack of interpreters is a key factor. When a mother can't follow the proceedings, "she looks unresponsive, and that conveys to a judge a lack of interest in the child, which is clearly not the case," she says. She also argues it's hard enough for any adult to learn a new language, "let alone when...
Some economists worry that the clunker program borrowed sales from future months, so we'll soon be hit with an ugly payback. I think that the payback-factor predictions for this program have been greatly exaggerated. I would argue that hundreds of thousands of potential new car buyers actually postponed buying a car within the last year due to economic uncertainty, and some of them ended up buying within the last few weeks due to the CFC program. That is, it motivated people to buy who had not been planning to do so, which means there shouldn...
...presidency proved unsuccessful, particularly after the Chappaquiddick incident became a major factor in the campaign...