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Cars.com News Briefs: March 12, 2012
KickingTiresHere's what we have our eye on today: Volkswagen says it's forecasting a stable profit for 2012 and currently has $22.3 billion cash in the bank, according to Bloomberg News. That money allows the German automaker to be more aggressive......Tags: Media Industry, Automotive Equipment, Earnings Forecasts, Ford Motor Co., Vehicles
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Road Trip!
MotherproofRemember the days when you and your best girlfriends would hit the open road for three days of travel and adventure? While road-trip spontaneity might be history for most moms, some Michigan Girl Scouts got their first taste of the open road this summer.....Tags: Michigan, Social Issues, Arts and Culture, Children, History
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Worried sick over health costs, quality
The Swampby Jim Tankersley and Christi Parsons Third in an occasional series, United States of Anxiety DETROIT-- Some days Mack MacQuarrie defies his Type 2 diabetes and submits to the temptations of a ballgame hot dog. Some days his legs swell,......Tags: Social Issues, Political Candidates, Barack Obama, Disasters and Accidents, Medical Services
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Obama's automotive history rewrite
The Swampby Mark Silva This had to be music to the ears of Detroit: "I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it,'' President Barack Obama said in his address to a joint session of Congress last......Tags: Maybach, Automotive Equipment, Barack Obama, Vehicles, Ford
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GM's Wagoner: Obama demands a price
The Swampby Mark Silva General Motors' troubles may or may not have started when it decided that it could make $10,000 a copy putting leather bucket seats and mobile DVD-players on pickup truck chassis and calling them sport utility vehicles, fleet-mileage......Tags: Automotive Equipment, National Government, Freedom of the Press, Government Aid, Big 3 Auto Bailout (2008)
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Who knew Detroit was a food mecca?
Dining@LargeHere's part two of guest poster Robert of Cross Key's eating adventures on his recent road trip. His photo and descriptions are making me hungry. ELDetroit is not a food desert. To paraphrase Mark Twain, the demise of Detroit......Tags: Alcoholic Beverages, Casino and Gambling Industry, Travel, Mark Twain, Falafel
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I owe my parents an apology for my behavior as a teenager. I now know how it feels be on the receiving end of sullen, snotty and otherwise disrespectful attitudes. My parents deserved better. Something has to be done with Congress. When the elections...
Tags: John L. Mica, Allen West, Barack Obama, Voting, U.S. Congress
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Rushing Headlong
Are we rushing headlong into new technology with breakneck speed at our own peril? I ask this because I often think we are. It could be I’m just becoming the curmudgeon I thought my dad was. Now I wonder if I’m just becoming that worst of...Tags: Nazi Party, Gaming, Entertainment, World War II (1939-1945)
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Yale's Architecture Echoes Past In Present
The Hartford CourantLike many Connecticut residents who didn't matriculate at Yale, I know the university in bits and pieces — a lecture at the law school, a play at the Rep, a dinner at the Commons. I don't have a good sense of how the whole place fits together, yet...Tags: Arts and Culture, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Colleges and Universities, Fenway Park, Education
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Calling out bugnut idiocy
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. "If a lot of African-Americans back in the '60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?" he said recently on his radio show, referencing...
Tags: Black History, John Lewis, Civil Rights, Rush Limbaugh, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Response to those rewriting black history: No
Rush Limbaugh thinks John Lewis should have been armed. "If a lot of African-Americans back in the '60s had guns and the legal right to use them for self-defense, you think they would have needed Selma?" he said recently on his radio show, referencing...
Tags: The Miami Herald, Black History, John Lewis, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Civil Rights
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Apple invests in U.S. so U.S. can invest in Apple
Whatever problems Apple is having with its Maps app — the latest embarrassment has police in Australia branding it "potentially life threatening" for drivers who are stranded in the middle of the desert — its inner compass appears to be in...
Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Business, Tim Cook, Barack Obama, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Dec 12, 2012
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