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...Actually they're not. But they whole segment is down and it hurts us more,"says Pipas, who notes the decline in April when gasoline went from about $2.50 to $3 per gallon and suburbanites began looking for something less expensive to drive. Pickup sales in the U.S. have fallen 15.7% and Ford's are down 12.2%. Ford's extensive commercial truck has held up fairly well despite rising interest rates and a drop in new housing starts, adds Pipas. But the discretionary buyers are having second thoughts about buying another one, or they are trading the pickups...
...would dramatically cut the cost of AIDS drugs they sold to the developing world; in return, the governments of 58 countries so far have guaranteed that they would make large purchases and otherwise help the companies to lower their costs. In those countries, the price of AIDS drugs has fallen from $2,000 a year in some cases to as low as $140, and an additional 400,000 people are now receiving treatment...
...first time Marathon (2005 revenues: $63 billion) has ever undertaken a large public-health project, but results have so far exceeded expectations. In just the first two years, the number of infected mosquitoes has fallen 95%, and the number of children 2 to 15 years old with malaria parasites in their blood has dropped from 45% to 26%. (The decline in children lags that of mosquitoes because it takes a while to clear parasites from previous infections.) And malaria cases among Marathon personnel have dropped from 20 to 30 a month to two or three a month...
...start of the Lebanon campaign to 48%. Peretz fell even lower, from 65% to 37%. After the cease-fire, opposed by many Israelis who thought that Olmert buckled to international pressure and gave up the fight against Hizballah too soon, the Prime Minister's popularity may well have fallen even further...
...child, the magician had met and fallen in love with a young duchess and schemed to elope with her. In maturity, this beauty has become Princess Sophie (Jessica Biel), who is likely to be wed to Crown Prince Leopold (Rufus Sewell), a potentate as brutal as he is handsome--and he is very handsome. If Eisenheim and Sophie are to resume their tryst, they must elude both Leopold and his wily Chief Inspector Uhl (Paul Giamatti). All are ready to play roles in Eisenheim's game: to be his accomplice, his stooge, his unmasker, his ruin...