Quality reporting is sporadic by auto companies, airlines, hotels, and other major industries.
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By auto manufacturers, by insurance companies, by car rental companies, by marketers.
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Mr. BECKER: This is a cynical effort by auto companies to evade the law that would reduce our oil dependence and global warming pollution.
The big drop was defined by auto sales, which fell as the tight credit conditions made it especially difficult to obtain a car loan.
Our mountain resort communities swell with visitors during the peak winter and summer seasons and are plagued by auto congestion and the lack of parking.
Unfortunately, accidents that happen while the car is parked or immobile are not covered by auto insurance, according to Sam Belden, vice president of Insurance.com.
The group said it based that conclusion on a chart it said was used by auto safety regulators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
For years now, their concerns have been ignored by auto executives who insisted there was no way to improve fuel efficiency and still give consumers the cars they want.
The sales were pushed up by auto sales though, meaning that the retail sector may face a growing challenge as stores begin to open back-to-school promotions to draw in cash-strapped customers.
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Recent popular trend articles point out that some men are reacting to the economic downturn by auto-emasculating, transforming themselves from corporate lumberjacks into bizarre caricatures of 1950's housewives, baking, sewing, and homemaking.
Now we're seeing domestic auto industry go as well, and be replaced by auto jobs at Japanese firms, for instance, that still pay well but nothing near what autoworkers for the Big Three used to make.
So far, core has been held down by auto pricing and corporate willingness to hold prices and margins down in the U.S. The coming slowdown in profit growth may cause multi-nationals to push through U.S. price increases.
Indeed, a new push to improve vehicle crashworthiness could complicate efforts by auto makers to persuade consumers that the lighter, smaller cars they are building to address tougher government fuel-efficiency standards and motorists' concerns about fuel prices are also safe.
Not an altogether popular decision, but understanding that the ramifications of not doing that would have been probably a million jobs lost, a supply chain that disappeared, and if you look at where the auto industry is today, 55, 000 more people are employed by the auto industry today than when the President took office.
Led by the auto and heavy machinery sectors, Japan begins to stand back on its feet after the devastation caused by an earthquake and ensuing tsunami on March 11.
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Specific details weren't released on fuel economy improvement or investment by each auto maker.
This will be the largest settlement amount by any auto company anywhere in history.
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The administration claims it isn't, and is backed by the auto and energy industries in that claim.
One bright spot was manufacturing jobs, which rose by 37, 000, led by the auto and auto-parts industries.
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The proposed fine is the largest civil penalty assessed by the auto safety regulator against a car maker.
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Retailers added the most jobs last month, propelled in part by higher auto sales as Americans replace aging cars.
Losers were led by Bajaj Auto, maker of two- and three-wheel vehicles, down 7.4% despite a jump in sales for December.
The Chinese company buying the American company makes a lot of money by providing auto parts for the cars that Americans drive.
The winners are selected by 49 auto journalists from the U.S. and Canada, including Joann Muller, DetroitBureau Chief of Forbes.
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Ford Motor hopes to jump start its stalled turnaround effort with widespread buyout offers for more than 75, 000 hourly workers represented by United Auto Workers.
It also joins a series of investments by global auto companies in their American plants, most of which are located in the South.
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Oregon's Falcon Northwest Computer Systems offers custom work by an auto painter who hand-sprays 20 layers of paint in any design people want.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve said that industrial output in the U.S. rose 0.6 percent in July, helped in part by the auto industry.
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