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Federal authorities also seized a white Mitsubishi in the garage at Logan Airport that had been rented at an Alamo office just off the airport, said Cheryl Budd, senior vice president for corporate communications for Alamo’s parent company...
...after a 0.3-percent gain in May. And incomes rose 0.3 percent in June after rising 0.2 percent in May. Both figures were slightly above expectations - and, along with some strong weekly chain-store retail sales numbers reported by the Redbook Retail Sales Average and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, were eagerly taken as signs that those tax rebate checks - even though the first $4 billion of them just arrived in mailboxes last week...
Jurgen Schrempp, the once swaggering chairman of DaimlerChrysler, is praying that the billions of dollars in losses at Chrysler and Mitsubishi (in which he bought a ruling share last year) don't sink the entire company. Ford CEO Jacques Nasser has a collection of premium brands in his stable: Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo. But amid a weak economy, sales at Ford and GM are down some 15% this year, and even the luxury brands are under new pressure from smaller Japanese and German automakers...
...also be able to hawk digital wares, from music and movies to paperless train tickets. And that promises to fundamentally remake the business by allowing vendors of electronic goods to bypass Japan's complicated distribution system by restocking their machines from a remote computer. "With the new machines," says Mitsubishi Research Institute analyst Yoshihiko Tamemoto, "logistical work will be replaced by the network...
...even this is a double-edged sword: Japan's perceived economic colonialism has spurred a recent backlash. In the Philippines, workers have demonstrated over mistreatment by Japanese bosses. Anti-Japanese fervor in China has shifted from complaints about war atrocities to gripes about selling shoddy merchandise. In one case, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. recalled four-wheel-drive Pajeros in Europe and North America because of a faulty rear brake. Customers there got free repairs. Chinese owners did not. Only after a Chinese government-affiliated consumers' group filed suit did Mitsubishi agree to pay compensation. Similarly, Toshiba offered free repairs and compensation...