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With help from big incentives from Toyota and broadly stronger demand for vans and pickup trucks, sales of new vehicles leaped nearly 27% in March compared with the same month last year, as the auto industry began to show signs that it is emerging from a long slump...
...pretty encouraged by our results. Our incentive spend is down significantly from last year," says Susan Docherty, GM's vice president of marketing, who points out that GM inventories have been cut by half and third shifts have been added at plants in Michigan, Kansas and Ontario to increase production. (See 10 milestones on the road to GM's bankruptcy...
...previous three years, she had watched the toads increase in number with the waxing of the moon. But last year was different. The moon grew from crescent to gibbous, and suddenly the toads were gone. "It went from there being 90 to 100 toads down to six, and then to one, and then zero," says Grant. A few mating pairs hung around, but after two days, they too left. "It was so dramatic, I was trying to think of reasons why they might have gone," she says. "I was at a loss. Did somebody come and disturb them? Did somebody...
...made. The seismic shift continued to set off aftershocks almost every day, but Grant stayed to count her toads. When a full moon rose three days after the quake, a few toads risked a return. But then their numbers dropped again, remaining low until two days after the last major aftershock - a full 10 days after the first tremor. "It's never been reported to have happened before," says Grant. "Once they're breeding, then they're breeding. That...
Nothing could be further from the truth. Assertive Angie is no Kaiser Bill. Nor is fiscal probity anti-European - quite the contrary. Article 125 of the Lisbon Treaty, Europe's quasi-constitution, forbids bailouts for the reckless. Moreover, in the last few months the euro has lost more than 10% against the dollar, and the fiscal chickens have come home to roost. The central problem - as critics of the euro predicted before the currency's launch - is not Germany's tightfistedness; it is a common monetary policy without a common polity that sets fiscal policy. (See pictures of immigration...