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...Tata's answers is the $2,200 car, a four-door, rear-engine runabout he designed himself that's currently under development. Another is the Ace, a 700-cc truck that Tata Motors sells for less than $5,000; it's a runaway success. Purchases of these vehicles are supported by low-interest consumer loans from Tata Finance. Tata's hotel chain is building 200 hotels across India under the Ginger brand, offering air-conditioned rooms with wireless Internet access for 1,000 rupees ($22), one-twentieth of the cost typically paid by business travelers today...
...Borat” comes from Cohen’s new emphasis on crude slapstick humor. That’s not to say that the “Jackass”-style antics in the film (nude male wrestling, a live bear in an ice cream truck, the attempted abduction of Pamela Anderson) aren’t funny, just that it doesn’t take a comedic mind of Cohen’s caliber to decide that a fat naked man writhing around a bed might be funny...
...according to Amber Arnett-Bequeaith, who expects to escort 100,000 customers this year into her five-story warehouse haunt in Kansas City at $20 a head. Even the term "haunted house" can be a bit of a misnomer; these dark amusements show up in steamboats and truck trailers, hotels and even a penitentiary, and occasionally in a real abode, like the Haunted Overload in Exeter, New Hampshire. The haunt-fest is even catching on overseas. They are popping up in the Netherlands, China, Europe and Australia...
...components in their plans. One includes a point system, designed by British firm Virgin, in which a pedometer records an employee's movements. Each step, with extra credit for exercise activities, is converted into points that can buy music, sports equipment and even airline tickets. At Illinois-based International Truck and Engine Co., a similar program has its workforce racing CEO Daniel Ustian to better health. A quarter of its 17,000 employees put in 27 miles a week...
...assessments get a special break: their premiums don't rise. Of the company's 15,000 workers, 94% took advantage of that offer this year. The data SCANA and other companies collect can then go toward disease management for such illnesses as diabetes and high blood pressure. At International Truck and Engine, where costs have remained flat the past two years, health professionals call chronically ill employees regularly (unless they opt out) to offer advice on care and medication. SCANA provides drugs through an in-house pharmacy. "We then can buy drugs at a wholesale price," says Joe Bouknight, SCANA...