Many Kenyans would rather forgo air conditioning, leather seats and automatic windows for all-terrain performance, reliability and cost, according to a survey Jackson ran of 1, 500 potential car buyers in Kenya.

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Several groups are trying to develop technology to produce low-cost automatic transmissions for emerging markets like China and India.

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Pensions have automatic cost of living adjustments: both the State pension and the pensions offered to former state workers.

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And both sides may embrace a suggestion now endorsed by Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to recalculate automatic cost-of-living increases for entitlement programs like Social Security, which many experts think are too high.

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