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...case appears to be falling apart. According to police, Nhim Sophea, the 22-year-old son of Hun Sen's sister, was partying with friends in late October when the group took off to race around the city in several vehicles. One of the cars crashed into a parked truck, striking two men unloading coconuts. (One died; the other ended up in a coma.) As a crowd gathered at the accident scene, a party goer began firing an AK-47. Two bystanders died in the gunfire...
...cars are cool again. As Ford Motor Co. puts it, this is "the year of the car." The Big Three's discovery of the automobile might seem odd at this point, but over the past 10 years, Detroit has focused much of its energy and money on SUVs and trucks, which command high prices and high profits and see less competition from imports. Carmaking has been a loser for Detroit lately, but with the foreigners now muscling into the SUV and truck markets while holding on to their car sales, the Americans have to respond or risk a further erosion...
...more than you gain." Now the company looks more carefully at its business during the down times, selling off parts that aren't working--such as gas delivered in cylinders for welding and metal fabrication--and retraining workers whenever possible so that they can move into growth industries. Truck drivers who used to just transport gases to industrial customers, for example, are being trained for the delicate task of administering liquid helium to the magnets in MRI scanners. "There are many manufacturing firms that are out of ideas," Meldrum says. "The easiest thing to go after is cost...
...metropolis of Great Falls, Montana’s second-largest “city,” is about 50,000 people large) experienced even rougher hands-on education: taking time off of school to sit in a combine, a harvester machine as large as a monster truck...
...plan provides for a hotline for residents to call with concerns, designates a construction mitigation manager to respond to complaints and calls for measures to limit noise, dust, vibrations and truck traffic...