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...seat belt. Showroom Showdown Despite hopes for an upturn, European car sales remain stalled. The manufacturers' response? Slash prices. Less than four months after it launched its new flagship Golf, Volkswagen last week announced it is throwing in free air-conditioning, the equivalent of an 8% discount on its base model. The move follows a 31,085 rebate offered by GM's Opel to early buyers of its new Astra, which is set to launch in March. In the U.K., many dealers now offer 0% financing - for years used to prop up the U.S. market - as a lure. "From...
...ticket sales and $950 in grants from the council, the Office for the Arts (OFA) and the Ann Radcliffe Trust, the company still has difficulty covering the cost of costumes and the licensing fees for the ballets they hope to stage. The group, which does not have a large base of graduates, relies heavily on donations from members’ parents, Schnidman said...
...Dean faithful are forced to disperse, one thing is clear for now: they couldn't elect him just on their own. Only about 600,000 people have signed up at the campaign's website. Even if all of them were active in the campaign, they would constitute a support base about the size of the population of Vermont. In the meantime, the political establishment has no intention of letting Dean supporters drift away. Representatives from the Democratic National Committee (D.N.C.) have visited the Dean campaign to hear its ideas and on their own have started blogs, Meetups and special drives...
Taking over a conglomerate mired in controversy poses unusual challenges. "I wasn't naive about what I was entering," Breen says. "My first day, almost 20% of our investor base showed up--in the third hour--in my office." They wanted to know how Breen was going to restore credibility to a health-care, electronics and security-alarm company that once aspired to be the next GE before Kozlowski's fall brought it to disrepute. The new CEO moved quickly. In his first six months he replaced Tyco's board of directors wholesale, fired the entire top corporate team...
Sophomore Danil Rybalko and senior Enrique Roy dominated the three-meter diving event for a 1-2 finish in the following event to further build the Crimson’s point-base...