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...Group's chief executive officer, also notes that 40% of pickup trucks are sold via big discounts."You can still move the market with incentives. We've protected our share but its become more expensive,"LaSorda says. In addition, the competition in the segment is also about to get tougher as GM launches a new truck this fall and Toyota puts its new truck in showroom floors in January, LaSorda says...
...That poses a problem for business travelers on short trips who prefer not to check bags. Standard & Poor's Baggaley talks about a "hassle factor" and says the tougher security "is likely to divert at least a small amount of business travelers." Any such defections would hurt airlines just as they have been returning to better financial shape, including U.S. carriers such as Delta, which is currently in bankruptcy but reported stronger operating margins in the second quarter. Airports are facing potentially even tougher problems. Baggage handling systems are nearly overloaded in many airports, as the number of checked bags...
...meeting Franco Frattini, vice president of the European Commission on Liberty, Justice and Security, mapped out the enhanced practical measures that E.U. leaders will announce in a formal plan over the next few days. They include extending existing research on explosives (particularly liquid explosives), a tougher crackdown on inflammatory websites or those that detail bomb-making expertise, and encouraging security officials to share biometric data of suspected persons more often and more rapidly...
...customers so they can load boxes onto planes with only spot inspections. The Government Accountability Office warned last October that the industry isn't adequately investigating shippers. But the Bush Administration and the airlines, which make about $17 billion a year from cargo on passenger planes, have resisted introducing tougher rules...
...challenge in containing and eventually squashing homegrown terror is to identify those groups without alienating the people who live and work alongside them. Earlier this week, Britain's most senior Muslim police officer complained that tougher anti-terrorism tactics were discriminating against the country's Muslims, further increasing tensions that have been rising since 9/11. "There is a real risk of criminalizing minority communities," said Tarique Ghaffur, Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner. "The impact of [tough counter-terrorism tactics] will be that just at the time we need the confidence and trust of these communities, they may retreat inside themselves...