Word: perfectible
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...benefited from the program? From the manufacturers' perspective, everybody except for the luxury carmakers. Hyundai, Kia, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, as well as Ford and GM's small-car lineups all experienced sizable sales increases. The perfect vehicle for the program was the sub-$20K midsize compact car. You will have a tough time finding any inventory that fits that description in most dealer lots today...
...used as all or part of the consumers' down payment, automatically increasing loan-approval rates - the bigger the down payment, the higher the approval rates for car loans, everything else being equal. The $4,500 incentive sometimes was doubled by manufacturer incentives. Even if you have less-than-perfect credit, if you put $9,000 down on a $25,000 vehicle, you have a good chance of getting approved. We also saw the captive finance companies becoming more flexible during the promotion in their approvals...
...that will convene in December could change all that. By putting a greater carbon value on trees planted on farmland through a cap-and-trade program that would give companies a carbon credit for growing and maintaining trees, we could encourage the growth of agroforestry. It's not a perfect compensation for continued deforestation - whole, virgin rain forests have an enormous ecological value that can't be replicated by agroforestry - but it's a realistic fallback. "This is a win-win investment opportunity for the world," says Garrity. It's also a rare bit of green good news...
...perfect jobs for the recession - and after...
...hives that had suffered from CCD with hives that were healthy. The sick bees exhibited genetic damage that could account for the die-off, and that damage indicated that they might be afflicted with multiple viruses simultaneously. This could weaken them enough to trigger CCD. "It's like a perfect storm," says Berenbaum...