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...The Italian-American carmaker sold 136,082 vehicles last month, driven by a 24 per cent gain for Ram pick-up trucks and vans. Jeep sales dipped 2 per cent despite a record January for Wrangler SUVs....
...In 1865, Mary Mapes Dodge, an author who had never visited the Netherlands, published the children’s novel Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates....
...How do you judge Atelier Van Lieshout’s chair in the shape of a skull designed for sensory deprivation? Or Studio Job’s Robber Baron furniture against Rams’ criteria?...
...Shalunov says he had a similar idea in 2001 that was dismissed by a US National Science Foundation programme director as “science fiction”....
...It has a bad product portfolio, with not only the Chrysler brand but Dodge skewed towards the US, and trucks and vans....
...Vans and pick-ups such as the Dodge Ram have been Chrysler’s core business since. This year’s collapse in sales of these profitable vehicles has hurt Chrysler more than any carmaker....
...Between 2001 and 2008 there were more than 1,450 terrorism-related arrests in Britain and almost 200 convictions....
...Even amid the worst bloodshed in Europe since the second world war, the soldiers were unwilling to murder the child, and the driver took the boy to his van....
...One grandfather was a prominent member of a group of German minimalist architects; the other, Jan Bontjes van Beek, was a well-known ceramicist....
...This is mainly due to Chrysler’s exposure to light trucks – 20 per cent of sales come from the Dodge RAM model alone – which are suffering from higher fuel costs and increased competition....
...However, GM’s Chevrolet Silverado and Chrysler’s Dodge Ram pick-up trucks are each company’s top-selling model and compete directly in this crucial segment: a combined company would find it hard to rationalise...
...Profit-takers were in evidence a day after the Dow Jones Industrial Average broke through the key 11,000 barrier for the first time since June 2001....
...One can go further and say that it is a dodge. Because Mr Garton Ash's assumption that Christianity is "the established majority religion" of Europe is open to dispute....
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