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...Hertz UK has piggybacked BA's bold scheme by offering 200 free car rentals on April 23. Starting this week, Avis Europe is tempting American drivers with a $21-a-day rate and unlimited mileage. Better still, to buffer travelers against dizzying currency fluctuations, the price is guaranteed in U.S. dollars for up to a full year. The dollar's dramatic 15% rise in value against many European currencies over the past seven weeks is also encouraging American tourists to pull out their charge cards...
...William Hertz, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles-based, 110-theater Mann Theater chain, was in a meeting yesterday and couldn't be reached for comment, his secretary said...
...warning to date. The agency tentatively concludes that scientific evidence "suggests a causal link" between extremely low- frequency electromagnetic fields -- those having very long wavelengths -- and leukemia, lymphoma and brain cancer. While the report falls short of classifying ELF fields as probable carcinogens, it does identify the common 60-hertz magnetic field as "a possible, but not proven, cause of cancer in humans...
...automakers, owning a rental-car company is a great way to showcase products. Ford has already bought into Hertz, General Motors is allied with Avis, and Chrysler owns Thrifty. Now a foreign manufacturer is getting into the act. Last week Mitsubishi Motors became the first Japanese owner of a U.S. agency when it bought control of Value Rent-A-Car for an undisclosed sum. Mitsubishi currently supplies 10% of Value's 20,000-car fleet, a share that will rise to 85% by year's end. After the agency has used the cars, it will turn them over...
...Midwest's best political reporter, David Yepsen of the Des Moines Register, is poised and waiting for the first 1992 Democratic presidential prospector to jet across the Mississippi into Keokuk or come stealthily by Hertz into Council Bluffs. His early-warning network, tuned to the Iowa caucuses that will kick off the next presidential season two years from now, is unerring...