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...half streak of falling sales. And if the cratered economy is the main culprit behind backed-up inventory at U.S. car dealers, another is that American automakers have failed to produce the more fuel-efficient vehicles that gas-price-conscious car buyers are beginning to demand. As a result, the U.S. still sends hundreds of billions of dollars overseas for oil - and adds ever more greenhouse-gas pollution into the atmosphere...
...Lower FMD can result from physical conditions like disability or diabetes or stressful life events like unemployment," says Zack. "It may also be a result of state and county policies that don't provide social safety nets like unemployment compensation and community mental-health services...
...process similar to carbon-dating. The patterns of the fossils indicated points where the coral died when the seas rose too fast for the organisms to adapt; each time the seas stabilized, the corals grew back, but at higher elevations and further inland, a process geologists call backstepping. The result is something like the ascending rings on a bathtub that indicate rising water levels...
...made that one or more large retailers could face problems not unlike those being faced by GM. The largest retailers have two advantages over car companies. For the most part, they do not have crushing debt loads. Secondly, they do not have the legacy labor costs that are a result of UAW negotiations with The Big Three, although some have pension plans that are not completely funded...
...women's shelter, which would allay fears that it could be shut down at any moment. It has also sought, but been refused, permission to visit Baghdad's women's prison, where it previously identified victims of trafficking who were locked up for offenses committed as a result of being trafficked, like having false documents or prostitution...