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...stores heat during the day and releases it at night, making it possible to save on air-conditioning and heating. Architects including Ferrier are playing with such possibilities as they design their new buildings. And the ultra-high-performance concretes can be put to surprising uses: in a showroom on the Lafarge campus, there's a table made of concrete that is so thin and elegant that from a distance it looks as though it could be made of marble...
...density also means it stores heat during the day and releases it at night, enabling savings on air conditioning and heating; architects including Ferrier are playing with such possibilities as they design their new buildings. And the ultra-high-performance concretes can be put to surprising uses: in a showroom on the Lafarge campus is a concrete table so thin and elegant that from a distance you might think it was made of marble...
Carmakers are also moving up year-end-sale promotions in a bid to get consumers back to the showroom. "We'll see the year-end events start as soon as the election is over," says Jim Farley, vice president of sales and service at Ford Motor, where sales dropped 30% last year...
...inventory on hand," says Jim Helton, the general manager. "That makes it harder for me to sell cars, because I'm giving people fewer choices." The dealership's owners were planning this summer to spend millions of dollars on a complete renovation and expansion of the façade, showroom and service area. Rising credit costs, combined with slow truck and SUV sales, forced the dealership to shelve the entire project. "Customers are still coming in, but they're walking away without a car," says Helton. "And it's largely because of credit...
...weeks after the installation of the word processors, the College began offering 20 to 30 percent discounts on IBM computers to students for the first time, setting up a showroom of $2,500 to $4,000 models on the sixth floor of the Holyoke Center...