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...Scrapping schemes can have similar effects. The aim is to pump up weak car sales while at the same time taking older, potentially more polluting vehicles off the road. This seems to be working, at least in Germany. The VDA expects registrations for the first quarter of 2009 to trump those seen in the same period last year. But a more modest $1,300 on offer to French motorists who give up their clunkers hasn't been enough to prevent car sales there from sliding 13% last month. Scrapping schemes in Italy and Spain failed to halt even steeper falls...
...rally, then there's a collapse. Like others in Europe, Germany's scheme is temporary. Buyer applications equivalent to a third of the program's $1.9 billion budget have already been submitted, with the remainder expected to be filed long before the program's Dec. 31 expiration date. When similar initiatives were launched in France and Italy in the early 1990s, Rhys says, "there was a big sag in the market when the scheme ended." That same prospect has angered some in the industry. Christian Streiff, boss of France's PSA Peugeot Citroën, warned such incentive schemes have...
...Kiessling, director of the Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation in Bedford, Mass., and an associate professor at the Medical School, expressed a similar sentiment...
...speed-ramping technique to place emphasis on dynamic moments in his action sequences, inviting the viewer to study the image in much the same way one would pause to appreciate a single comic panel. Moreover, Snyder endeavored to ensure that “Watchmen” maintained an aesthetic similar to that of the comic by working closely with Dave Gibbons who illustrated the 1986-87 novel. “In a lot of ways Dave is like the visual author of the movie,” Snyder says. “If you think about the movie...
...Jeff Buckley once declared. “It’s about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom.” While Kathy Nilsson refrains from such gestures of grandiose pomposity, her poems are imbued with a similar ear for the power of the mundane. “The Abattoir” is a chapbook with 23 poems that frequently use the everyday to direct the reader on to more abstract concerns of love, loss, and a decaying spirituality. Written in Cambridge and published out of Georgetown, Kentucky, the poems...