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...Harris collected sports teams....
...Private companies, such as Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India, provide full scholarships for 18-month training sessions and placement at commercial airlines....
...It seems to be a magical market of non-fossil fuel scale. In 2008, Honda said it wanted to get to 500,000 hybrid sales some time soon after 2010....
...Meanwhile, his bumbling NFL club became the butt of jokes, and worse, in the back pages of the tabloid newspapers and the cauldron of sports talk radio....
...Izzy cites SocGen research which asks whether EM outflows have only just begun, and wonders if taper tantrum V.2 has at least learned from taper tantrum V.1 that taper means the opposite of a US bond apocalypse...
...The location of the United Auto Workers’ union office in Coaling, Alabama, says a lot about the status of organised labour in this part of the country....
...of 2008....
...suicide in 2008....
...In the weeks following the Japan earthquake, Ford Motor in North America told dealerships they could have sport utility vehicles in any colour so long as it was not black, because of difficulties in sourcing...
...Honda said on Friday that it was extending shutdowns of several plants to March 23....
...Electric power blackouts in North America—such as the one that shut down the northeast of the United States in 2003—and in Europe and Russia, generate worries about the reliability of electricity supply...
...In particular India’s fast-growing market has attracted several buy-out groups sitting on large piles of cash, said V....
...The announcement comes amid the furore over problems at Toyota, which is facing Congressional hearings in the United States over its recall of 8.5m vehicles since November....
...But Mr Pipas expects the swing to be especially strong in North America, where small vehicles’ share will grow from 31 per cent to 36 per cent, entirely at the expense of the biggest pick-up trucks, sport-utility...
...Adventure sports feature on the list of playtime pursuits of many people who are used to high levels of financial risk in their jobs....
...biggest carmaker, the title Toyota took from General Motors in 2008....
...on the massive neoclassical monuments emerging in the capital of one of India’s poorest states....
...The 27-month lease on the couple’s Honda Odyssey minivan was expiring and they browsed widely last month, weighing the merits of sport utility vehicles ranging from the Honda CR-V small crossover to Porsche...
...F1’s third big revenue stream, television rights, looks more secure, thanks to multi-year deals, although if more teams follow the example of Honda and pull out of the sport, TV interest could shrink, too...
...North v south, Rustbelt v Sunbelt, red v blue: these are some of the dividing lines in the 2008 presidential campaign and they are also some of the themes that play in this year’s World Series....
...Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States By Andrew Coe Oxford University Press, £15.99 The story of America’s love-hate relationship with Chinese food, from the first American...
...Luxury hotel stays, sport-utility vehicles and other trappings of upwardly mobile Americans might be among the first casualties of a US recession as consumers and businesses alike look to rein in spending...
...The start of the 2008 season coincides with epic turmoil in global financial markets, growing fears of a protracted recession in the US and a compelling race for the White House....
...The car will not meet emission standards in the remaining five states, including California and New York, until 2008....
...While Toyota, Honda and Nissan all sell trucks, most of their vehicles have lacked the towing capacity and “muscle” image that many buyers want....
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