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Indeed, for all Toyota's strengths, the company needs a truck hit in the U.S. to offset weaker prospects in other areas. While Toyota is expanding rapidly in Europe and China, those sales tend to be concentrated in the compact-car segment, in which profit margins are low. In Japan, where Toyota intends to launch its Lexus brand in August, the company may have a hard time expanding market share, already at 44%. The dollar's slump against the yen, meanwhile, makes Japanese exports more expensive...
...favored it 51% to 36%, even though only 16% say they support it strongly; 52% thought they would personally pay more taxes if it were passed. Republicans were more than twice as likely as Democrats to favor the plan. One somewhat contradictory albeit understandable finding was that though Americans tend to favor the plan in general, they clearly oppose its major specific provisions. When asked about eliminating the deductions for state and local taxes, some 80% said they were opposed. Likewise, 77% said they were against having to pay taxes on any part of their fringe benefits...
After the discovery in June of a killer colony in an oil field in south-central California, the state was buzzing with talk of the aggressive bees, which tend to attack humans and wildlife in swarms. Since the bees pose a potential threat to California's $55 million-a-year bee industry, the state's department of food and agriculture announced last week that it would carry out a search-and-destroy mission for all wild bees within a ten-mile radius of the killer nest. Scientists will also inspect the 9,200 commercial hives in the 97 apiaries...
...year-round grind is definitely not for everyone. Families in cold-weather states generally refuse to break with their traditional summers off. Even in the Sunbelt, families with children in extracurricular activities tend to see YRE as disruptive. The staggered vacation times often clash with seasonal schedules for games and practice sessions. Nearly 200 parents in Oxnard lined up in the early-morning hours two years ago to be sure they could register their children in a conventional semester program. But despite such limitations, YRE has grown nationwide, from 243,000 pupils four years ago to 330,000 today...
...discovered a description of the fears that haunted her, went a step further and calibrated the syndrome. She devised the Harvey IP scale, a series of 14 self-evaluating statements now used by psychologists to measure a subject's feelings of fraudulence. Examples: "In general, people tend to believe I am more competent than I really am." And, "At times I have felt I am in my present position through some kind of mistake...