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...smaller particles and gases, including water vapor, out from the center. The heavier, metal-rich rock left behind condensed into asteroids and the inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. Much of the gas and light dust , farther out was gathered up into the so-called gas giants: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The rest was blown by solar heat and wind to the outskirts, where it presumably congealed into chunks of ice and dust. (Rocky Pluto is an anomaly, and many astronomers believe it isn't a planet at all but a giant comet or asteroid flung into...
...MasterCard would earn 5% rebates on purchases made with the card, up to a maximum of $500 a year or $3,500 over seven years. Card-holders could apply the rebates toward the lease or purchase of new GM cars and trucks -- except for the hot-selling Saturn, which has never offered price verage of about 18%. Robertson estimates that the card's features will attract 2 million holders over the next 18 months...
...Local 1714, said his members received support from workers at distant plants whose weekly incomes are dropping from $700 to $200 a week. "Job security is important to everybody," he said. But the strike also came at an awkward time for the automaker. With stocks of the best-selling Saturn nearly depleted, GM had been losing between $1 million and $2 million a day, which still might doom the company to its eighth consecutive quarter in the red, the longest dry spell in corporate history...
...union are already at odds because of company plans to close 21 plants. Last week 2,300 GM workers struck a parts plant in Lordstown, Ohio, over job security. The action halted the assembly line for the much touted Saturn, which depends on a steady flow of auto components to meet its Japanese-inspired "just in time" production system...
...Saturn's diligence has finally paid off handsomely with a third-place finish in J.D. Power's highly regarded annual survey of car customer satisfaction. Not only was that the highest ranking achieved by any U.S. make in the respected survey, but at an average price of $12,500, Saturn was alone among luxury favorites such as Lexus, Infiniti and Acura, all with price tags three times as high...