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...fastest-growing market is the auto industry, which is increasingly replacing metal with lightweight plastics in bumpers, body panels and other parts. These polymers typically weigh half as much as steel but are just as strong. The plastics conserve gas by making a vehicle lighter, and manufacturing them requires 10% to 20% less energy than fabricating metal parts. Admittedly, there can be problems. General Motors found that the polymer body panels of some of its minivans started to peel like old wallpaper. Moisture had seeped between the sheets of plastic and caused the panels to come unglued...
...fastest route to default is unemployment, which is on the rise. The U.S. jobless rate has increased from 5.2% in June to 5.7% in October; in those five months the country has lost 336,000 jobs. One of the causes has been corporate debt, which has forced many companies to take drastic cost-cutting steps. While it may be beneficial for U.S. consumers to prepare for hard times by saving more and spending prudently, an overreaction would be dangerous, since consumer spending accounts for roughly two-thirds of the U.S. gross national product...
...some of the worshipers dance across the aisles, while white-clad deaconesses stand ready to aid those overcome by emotion. "God is still in the miracle business," intones Bishop James O. Patterson Jr. during an hourlong sermon. The Church of God in Christ, with 3.7 million members, is the fastest growing black denomination -- in fact probably the fastest growing major denomination of any kind -- in America...
...down its hub at Philadelphia, which it bought only a year ago from Eastern, and plans to sell its operations there to USAir for $67.5 million. Northwest has trimmed its flight schedule by 24 daily flights, or 2% of its total. Even Phoenix-based America West, one of the fastest-growing U.S. carriers, is cutting some late-night and weekend flights...
...asked to name the world's fastest-growing market for imported cars, few people would give the right answer: Japan. Over the past four years, imports of foreign cars there have been rising at annual rates of around 35% in a generally stagnant market. This year the Japanese will buy more than 230,000 foreign-made cars; by 1995 the number could double, accounting for 10% of total annual sales and about the same level of penetration as Japanese carmakers now have in Europe...