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...early years of the automobile, car dealers took animals in trade. As time passed the largest dealerships built elaborate showrooms and spent their own money for events around new model debuts. Running a large dealership is expensive. Buying cars from the manufacturers has not been a winning proposition for many dealers over the last two years. Most have to borrow money to purchase inventory. As sales have dropped due to the recession, many vehicles stay on the lots for months. Being a car dealer went from being extremely profitable in many cases to being a no-win business. (See pictures...
...Chatelaine of Chicago herself picked up the phone and called Frey to apologize for the public whupping she handed him in 2006, when it was revealed that his 2003 addiction memoir, A Million Little Pieces, had some not-so-little lies in it, like the fact that he spent only a few hours in police custody rather than the three months in jail he described in his book. Oops. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...time will come, and probably come soon, when no matter what statistics the government gives to voters, they will insist that the money being spent on national monument repairs, NASA, hog subsides, and a new presidential helicopter go away. The government says that all of this money has to be spent, but the pack mule that the taxpayer has become can only carry so much weight...
...short, it's the calories, stupid. You can exercise all you want, which will surely make you healthier - reducing your risk of heart disease, diabetes and dementia, for instance - but unless you eat better, or less, it may do nothing to make you thin. All that money we have spent to get kids into P.E. might be better spent helping schools to serve fresh fruits and vegetables at lunch instead of tater tots...
...cuts, many said they wished they had been notified of the meetings earlier. The e-mail announcing the Town Hall Forums was sent to students at 3:40 p.m., just 20 minutes before the first one began.Hammonds said that she and Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith had spent much time over the past few months working on the cuts and wanted to release them before exam period.In addition, students at all four events said that they felt like their opinions had not been solicited in designing the cuts.“We don’t feel involved...