Word: scrapyards
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...fuel-efficient than the law demands. The top three sellers in the first week were the Ford Focus, Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic (all made in the U.S. but with lots of foreign parts). Now the turned-in vehicles (the Ford Explorer led the list) are headed for the scrapyard, but only after their engines are snuffed with a solution of liquid glass (sodium silicate) to keep them from ever befouling the air again...
...remanufacturing is 14 million tons, according to a University of Bayreuth study, or enough to fill 230,000 railroad cars - that's a train 1,860 miles (3,000 km) long. And while current European Union regulations dictate that only 15% of an auto can wind up in a scrapyard, that percentage will drop to 5% in 2015 - a requirement that should boost the industry's growth, since remanufacturers need a steady supply of broken-down goods for the process to work efficiently...
...Unauthorized Withdrawal DBS Bank (Hong Kong) promised compensation to savers after it accidentally sent 83 safety deposit boxes to the scrapyard...
...Indeed, even otherwise stalwart supporters are wondering if the company, having persisted in a long history of deceptive behavior, now deserves to be hauled away to the scrapyard. Asks one executive at a Mitsubishi company participating in the bailout: "If they did something against society, why should we support them?" It's a question that even the most loyal Pajero drivers will be asking themselves when trade-in time rolls around...
...three brothers had agreed to share a paper route delivering the Birmingham News--and to buy a car with their earnings. But Virgil needed a bicycle. So that Sunday after church, at around noon, he and James rode James' bike to Docena, where an uncle had a scrapyard. The church bombing had already occurred, but word hadn't reached their uncle's when, shortly after 4 p.m., they headed home after failing to find a bike for Virgil. The boys took a rural stretch called the Docena-Sandusky Road, flanked by pine and mimosa trees rising from a tangle...