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...HUPD responded to a report of a motor vehicle driving erratically in the Soldiers Field parking lot. Officers spoke with the party and sent them on their...
...There was no evidence presented that the operator of the motor vehicle was negligent," Pasquarello said. "It was a stormy evening and [Palmer-Sherman] was crossing the street outside of a crosswalk...
...Then again, that rending is "a process driven in large part by nonrational behavior." In other words, there's no reason to panic just yet, not least because nobody seems to be panicking just yet. "The weakness in sales of motor vehicles and homes has been modest, suggesting that consumers have retained enough confidence to make longer-term commitments, and, as I pointed out earlier, expected earnings growth over the longer run continues to be elevated...
...since South Park. It's a simple recipe. Take some homemade, remote-controlled robots (which look more like armored lawn mowers than androids). Give them WWF-style names like Mauler and Vlad the Impaler. Put them in a Plexiglas cage, and let them hammer, buzz-saw and ram the motor oil out of each other. Throw in campy announcers and a good-looking blond to interview contestants, and you've got a license to mint ratings...
...charges against IBM are hardly unique. Many U.S.-based multinationals, including Ford Motor Company, Coca-Cola and Colgate-Palmolive, have weathered charges of aiding and/or operating for profits under the Nazi regime. A few years ago, when a lawsuit was brought against Ford, the company fought (and won) for a dismissal, but not before it acknowledged that its German subsidiary used labor from the Buchenwald concentration camp to build vehicles. Ford's U.S. offices maintain they were not responsible for what went on after its assets were seized in 1941 - a claim many companies, including IBM, make in the face...