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...base model. The move follows a 31,085 rebate offered by GM's Opel to early buyers of its new Astra, which is set to launch in March. In the U.K., many dealers now offer 0% financing - for years used to prop up the U.S. market - as a lure. "From the consumer's point of view, it's paradise, but it's a total disaster for manufacturers," says Peter Schmidt, publisher of an auto insiders' newsletter. He says a list of rebates and discounts now being offered would "be as long as your arm." Compounding the automaker's woes...
...1990s, however, A.P.U. president Richard Felix envisioned the school as a flagship Christian university and launched its first formal fund-raising campaign. Under Felix, now retired, A.P.U. introduced an honors program and a science research institute, created academic scholarships to lure better students from both religious and secular high schools, quadrupled its graduate programs and nearly doubled undergraduate enrollment. Even as the school grew in size, the mean SAT score of freshmen began a steady climb, rising 72 points in the past five years, to 1,102--82 points above the national average and a sign that more serious scholars...
...chance to preside over a university with a full complement of professional schools, which Penn has but Princeton does not, helped lure her to Philadelphia, she said...
...sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything." ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, Governor of California, promising to lure more jobs to the state...
...They Leave Inadequate resources, including poor facilities and low pay Stifling bureaucracy, especially in France and Germany , hurts efficiency Better career opportunities abroad. Europeans fill academic postdoc jobs that Americans shun in favor of industry What May Lure Them Back Higher funding. The European Commission is spending €17.5 billion onR and D from 2002 through 2006 More meritocracy, replacing the traditional hierarchical model Stronger pan-E.U. networks, especially through a European Research Council