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Toyota Motor Corp., struggling to contain the damage from the continuing controversy over unintended acceleration in some of its cars, has elected to indefinitely halt sales of eight models, including the Camry, America's best-selling automobile, and the Corolla, the practical compact model on which the Japanese automaker built its reputation for quality and durability. As part of its effort to address sticking accelerators, it will also recall 2.3 million vehicles...
...halt to sales is forcing Toyota to suspend production at five plants, idling more than 20,000 workers and leaving 1,200 Toyota dealers sitting with roughly 250,000 unsold - and for now, unsalable - vehicles worth nearly $50 billion. Jesse Toprak, an analyst with TrueCar.com, says Toyota will probably have to help the dealers finance the inventory as the sales freeze continues...
...rocked the rural evangelicals who comprise the party's base, and may lead some to drift toward two smaller Protestant parties. A three-way split of the Protestant vote could give Sinn Fein the largest number of seats in the Assembly, causing the political process to grind to a halt. Such an outcome would also be a disaster for Robinson, who has steered the DUP away from its original firebrand populism to its current position atop Northern Irish politics. If he fails to return to power, it could mean the end not only for a prominent political family, but also...
Gary Whitta's script, set 30 years after civilization screeched to a halt when a great "flash" (maybe a devastating bomb or the wrath of God) filled the sky, imagines a charred American Southwest littered with dead trees, debris, corpses - a landscape not even WALL-E could clean up. The desaturated color scheme makes the whole world look as if it were left outside to die, and it was. Marauding punks prey on solitary travelers for water, food and clothing. With all industrial and agricultural sectors in shambles, the fear-market system applies: survival of the meanest...
University administrators have halted or slowed other capital projects, most notably Harvard’s campus expansion across the Charles River. But construction on the Northwest Corner Building proved more expensive to halt than to continue, according to statements by former interim Law School Dean Howell E. Jackson last year...