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...will even take the car on a test drive. Armed with the results, the would-be buyer can renegotiate or reconsider. Says Patrick Ludwick, founder and president of the Dallas-based company: "Normally the engine or the transmission doesn't fall out. It's the smaller items that will nickel and dime a person to death." A poll of Ludwick's first 1,000 customers found an average saving of $600 a purchase...
...Green, the most sweeping attack on environmental problems ever put before voters, but they also turned back a flurry of special interest-backed proposals that would have negated Big Green's impact had it passed. In the blur of clashing TV commercials, citizens turned negative, killing everything from a nickel-a-drink surtax on alcoholic beverages to a sales tax to fund antidrug measures...
...long before it adopted minority preferences, the FCC was handing out valuable licenses practically for free on other, equally bogus criteria. After more than a half-century of this foolishness, many of America's largest fortunes derive from ownership of broadcasting franchises. Helms himself has made the odd nickel this way. In just the past few years, the awarding of cellular- telephone franchises has created a whole new category of white male multimillionaires. Reformers have long argued that valuable FCC licenses should be auctioned off, rather than given away, so that the value can be shared...
Some state officials yesterday questioned the motives behind the rise in gasoline prices, which have jumped more than a nickel per gallon in many locations...
...Donald Eigler and Erhard Schweizer were able to get individual atoms to respond to the magnet-like tug of a fine tungsten needle. But don't expect to see atom-etching booths at your local science fair. It took 22 hours to haul 35 xenon atoms across the bumpy nickel surface. And when the temperature rose above -380 degrees F, the masterpiece flew apart...