Hints and tips:
...Earnings: Japanese multinational tyre manufacturer Bridgestone is to release third-quarter results on Friday. Markets: Japanese stocks fell and Hong Kong futures pointed lower on Friday morning....
...If you made the tyres, if you picked some of the softer compounds, perhaps if you had to do a mandatory two pitstops during the grand prix and you had to run all three [tyre] compounds....
...They have missed what is surely the greatest opportunity since the sport of tyre changes was introduced to Formula 1....
...Worn tyres, diesel engines and construction industries produce these microscopic particles that affect lungs and can build up into a smog. Yet the data pointed to a different culprit....
...After the second world war, Sears was the pre-eminent US retailer with commanding market shares in hardware products and home appliances, and well known brands such as DieHard car batteries, RoadHandler tyres...
...In 2009, President Barack Obama imposed punitive tariffs on imports of Chinese tyres although economists now broadly view it as having done more harm than good to the US economy....
...Holt issues instructions: “You take the berm over there, Gary. Matt, hang back and call out the owls that fly back.” It’s a good morning....
...“But now, companies are realising that it makes sense to kick the tyres first before investing in Cuba.”...
...Hackers have shown that communication systems, such as tyre sensors, can be accessed and used to control other parts of the vehicle....
...Gary Backler, Backler Consulting, Twickenham, Middx, UK...
...Back in the dirt I saw further signs of the patrol – car tyres chained together and dragged behind trucks to sweep the trail at dusk so that any new tracks will be visible at dawn, emergency beacons for...
...My tyres throw up great clouds of rust-coloured dust....
...Campbell was joined by Gary Locke, the US ambassador in Beijing, and Harold Koh....
...Although the US side will be led by Ron Kirk, trade representative, and Gary Locke, commerce secretary, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is scheduled to meet Tuesday with Wang Qishan, Chinese vice-premier...
...On the same day, the US won a critical ruling from a panel at the WTO over its imposition of 35 per cent duties on Chinese tyre imports....
...US rather than helping American tyre manufacturers....
...But for the moment, as Gary Horlick, Washington lawyer, says: “There seems to be an implicit deal between the US and China not to start a [legal] fight on currencies and to let the lawyers litigate everything...
...Earlier this week China requested a WTO hearing on the US’s recent decision to impose emergency tariffs on Chinese tyres....
...One such tool was used in September last year to restrict Chinese tyre imports, provoking a storm of protest from free-traders....
...Last month the Obama administration levied 35 per cent tariffs on tyres made in China....
...that tit-for-tat retaliation could surge out of control have also been stoked by the latest US-China spat, which this month saw China file a WTO complaint against punitive US duties on imports of Chinese tyres...
...He also likes Laxness, which provides rubber for tyres....
...Others may be less obvious, but still very cheap: for instance, one tyre factory in the UK was told to have its windows washed....
...Death by flaming tyre pyre. Torture by plastic bag. A police training exercise in which the cadet must hold in his hand a grenade from which the pin has been removed....
...Last year, though, she called Gary Tinterow, the Met’s curator of modern art, to say she no longer wanted the responsibility of the collection – would he please take it there and then?...
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