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...accurate count of businesses that may employ only one or two people is almost impossible. The National Automobile Dealers Association, in contrast, reports that about 21,000 car dealers employed 1.1 million people in 2006. Since there are probably more than 100 million cars and light trucks on the road, many people are getting their cars repaired at some place other than a new car dealership...
...Scrapping schemes can have similar effects. The aim is to pump up weak car sales while at the same time taking older, potentially more polluting vehicles off the road. This seems to be working, at least in Germany. The VDA expects registrations for the first quarter of 2009 to trump those seen in the same period last year. But a more modest $1,300 on offer to French motorists who give up their clunkers hasn't been enough to prevent car sales there from sliding 13% last month. Scrapping schemes in Italy and Spain failed to halt even steeper falls...
...ideas from Africa, from Afghanistan, and the Near East, to create film programs that help deal with the problems in those regions.”The Marshall Plan films had the collective effect of a quiet reawakening of the European will to create cinema. “When a road-show comes to town to screen a film program, whether its propaganda or not, its going to reestablish an interest in movies that may have been lost during the war—that was quelled either by being at war or occupied by another country,” Hinkle says...
...granted and to regard the peace as irreversible," says Lord Bew, professor of Irish politics at Queen's University Belfast and a legislator in Britain's Upper House. "I was shocked to death [by the killings]," says Belfast native Jim McNally as he strolls along the city's Falls Road. "I just think it's awful. I don't think people were expecting it." (See pictures of Belfast at peace...
...territory's so-called peace dividend and are the hardest hit by the vertiginous decline of the economy. Such places used to be no-go areas for the police and were effectively controlled by paramilitaries. Sinead Kelly, 18, waits for her partner outside a betting shop on Falls Road, a working-class republican stronghold. "It's frightening around here at night," she says. "I can't even walk down the street with my baby; I'm that scared, in case I meet people with drugs." Her startling conclusion: "I would rather have lived in those days when...