Hints and tips:
...“But it’s more fun when you’re creating something than when you’re trying to repair the damage.”...
...The surgeon, from New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, likened it to “auto-vaccination”....
...Some companies have turned to court protection from creditors on even more occasions: car repair chain Strauss Auto filed for bankruptcy five times. Sears and ESL declined to comment....
...The collaboration will see Sears Auto Centers provide “full-service tyre-installation and balancing” for customers who buy any tyres through Amazon.com....
...The online retailer and the department store chain have set up a venture where any tyres bought on the internet’s company website can be installed at a Sears Auto Center....
...Meantime, she has spent another $7,000 on repairs to a “terrible” car that would now fetch about $750 in a sale....
...as well as its Sears Home Services repair business....
...Sears Auto Center is another hockable bit of family silver. Mr Lampert recently loaned $400m to Sears, with stores as collateral, to fund the holiday inventory build....
...The Illinois-based group, controlled by hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert, added that it was also considering splitting off its Auto Centers business....
...Mr Lask points out a Facebook post of a cute dog by retailer Sears: “Winter’s nearly over! It’s Friday! Hooray! Weekend! Here’s a picture of a pug!”...
...In just one example, a study by the Center for an Urban Future estimates that New York City needs to spend $47bn over the next four to five years to repair decaying assets such as schools....
...The shale oil boom around Williston, North Dakota, has created a bonanza for its open-air strips of shops, Mr Mason notes; the corrosion of auto jobs in Detroit, Michigan, has been bad for its malls....
...Arrangements vary from two computer hackers sharing an apartment in Palo Alto and co-founding a company in the living room, to groups of engineers who are converting former auto repair shops and factory...
...And tonight, the American auto industry is back. What’s happening in Detroit can happen in other industries. It can happen in Cleveland and Pittsburgh and Raleigh....
...Credit derivatives are at the center of the credit markets. This was not the case a decade ago....
...We have agreed to expand this program to target the markets for small business lending, student loans, consumer and auto finance, and commercial mortgages....
...repair shop, which is guarded by a large, menacing dog....
...GM came to the rescue of downtown in 1996 by buying the Renaissance Center, the city's tallest building, and moving its head office there....
...David Cole, president of the Center for Automotive Research in Michigan, says: "They were losing money on those products . . ....
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