4 Jul 2008 at 12:54pm As I said before here, demand for oil surged from 30 million barrels a day to 50 million barrels a day from the mid ?60s to early ?70s. Part of it was caused by the increase in income of the people in the growing economies which allowed them to ...
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4 Jul 2008 at 12:40pm The days of the deal are creeping back, at least on big trucks. After years of trying to wean themselves off fat cash-back rebates and special financing discounts -- which have proven to erode profits, brand image and resale values -- many of the ...
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4 Jul 2008 at 11:35am Officials say there will be check points throughout the city and that anyone caught using or selling fireworks will be arrested. Anyone caught transporting them across state lines will have their car seized. "The last thing anyone should have to ...
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4 Jul 2008 at 4:47am On April 4, regular gas on Vineyard cost $3.85. It wasn?t long ago that the price of a gallon of gasoline on the Vineyard reached the $2 mark for the first time, sending shock waves from Menemsha Texaco to the Edgartown Mobil station and prompting ...
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3 Jul 2008 at 12:19pm July 3 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. , which popularized the 7,800-pound Hummer, may begin selling a mini-car more than a foot shorter than anything else it markets in the U.S. to win back buyers deterred by record fuel prices. GM may bring the ...
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3 Jul 2008 at 2:25am SAN FRANCISCO - Unable to strike a deal on its own, Microsoft Corp. reportedly is hoping to snap up Yahoo's online search operations with the help of News Corp. and Time Warner Inc. The latest twist in Microsoft's convoluted courtship caused Yahoo's ...
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2 Jul 2008 at 11:23am NEW YORK - Stocks gave up a brief rally Wednesday and resumed the selling seen in recent weeks after factory orders showed their the weakest performance in three months in May and as investors squared positions ahead of the government's June ...
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