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...government and the two big U.S. car companies faced a balancing act between cutting the size and complexity of their distribution networks quickly or doing it in a more orderly fashion. Customers might have been encouraged to stay if the manufacturers offered special financing on cars owned by shuttered dealers. It would have been a good way to pick up or save a new car buyer. It would have created some goodwill. GM and Chrysler could also have introduced customers to dealers that are staying open in their part of the country. They could have offered a year's free...
...When I was a kid, all astronauts were male, all astronauts were test pilots, all astronauts were white, and all astronauts were the same size. I didn't fit into most of these categories." -From Contemporary Black Biography, via Answers.com...
...thousand soldiers. But the transformation from running a guerrilla force to a conventional army may have been the leader's undoing. The nation's current President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, took office in 2005 and vowed to pursue a military solution. In a conventional war against an army many times its size, the LTTE was sure to be outmatched, and eventually it was. Prabhakaran never again appeared before the press after 2002, but he continued to release photos and speeches every year. "With its greed for land, Sinhalam [Sri Lanka] has entered a militaristic path of destruction," he said in his last...
...publication has also suffered from the recent termination of the Women’s Center’s Ann Radcliffe Trust Grant, which had previously supported Freeze. To continue publication, the publication has reduced the size of their minimags, and Hanger says she does not foresee more problems...
...refresh it so often) and big parcels of real estate aren't easy to find in Japanese cities. Forever 21 president Alex Ok said that the search for the site, which at 19,000 sq. ft. (1,800 sq m) is still just one-fifth of the size of a store planned for New York City's Times Square, began a year ago. But he found what he was looking for, and is confident he can tap into the new Japanese frugality. "A Gucci handbag and a Forever 21 top," says Ok. "It's a way for [consumers]] to think...