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Honda's Ohio Plant to Build Accord Hybrid
KickingTiresCall it a hybrid hat trick: Honda announced today that it will manufacture the 2014 Accord Hybrid at its auto plant in Marysville, Ohio, becoming the automaker's third hybrid model to be built in the U.S. Honda stated in a......Tags: Plant Openings, Acura, Manufacturing and Engineering, Honda, Metal and Mineral
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Daily News Briefs: June 20, 2012
KickingTiresA year ago, J.D. Power and Associates' widely regarded Initial Quality Study sent Ford tumbling due to its buggy, touch-sensitive MyFord Touch and MyLincoln Touch dashboard controls. The study proved to be a canary in Ford's coal mine of dashboard......Tags: Gymnastics, Manufacturing and Engineering, Metal and Mineral, Bloomberg L.P., Automotive Equipment
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Honda's U.S. factory: 'Canary in coal mine' to dam-breaker
KickingTiresBy James R. Healey USA TODAY When Japan's Honda Motor announced in 1980 its then-radical decision to build cars in the U.S., the auto business collectively said, "What?" Volkswagen, alone among foreign car companies, was trying limited U.S. production,...Tags: Plant Openings, University of Michigan, Sears, Toyota Motor Corp., Gardening
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Warning Lights Tell of Cheap and, Sometimes, Expensive Repairs
KickingTiresAs automobiles become more reliable over time ??? the average vehicle lifespan is now 10.6 years ??? minor vehicular problems, when left unchecked, are increasingly causing more expensive or ???catastrophic??? repairs down-the-line, according to CarMD,...Tags: Car Engine Repair, Manufacturing and Engineering, Metal and Mineral, Automotive Equipment
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Former Congressman Ken Hechler to speak at Delray Beach library
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsThe Delray Beach Public Library is hosting a conversation with former Congressman Ken Hechler at 2 pm Sunday. Local politics guru Robert Watson, an American politics and government professor at Lynn University, will join Hechler, a Democratic US Rep....Tags: Metal and Mineral, Delray Beach, Lynn University, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Karen Marcus votes to approve yet another mine, but talks moratorium
Palm Beach Politics | Sun-Sentinel BlogsTry to puzzle this one out: Commissioner Karen Marcus, once again, is pushing the controversial idea of a mining moratorium in western Palm Beach County. Yet when another mine came up for approval at a zoning meeting Thursday, to claim......Tags: Credit and Debt, Metal and Mineral, Everglades, Economy, Business and Finance
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$4-a-gallon gas driving economic crisis
The Swampby Frank James With gas prices reaching a national average of $4-a-gallon over the weekend, the sense of national crisis is surging along with the cost of filling up. The New York Times focuses attention on those consumers who are......Tags: Politics, Upper House, Metal and Mineral, Government, Republican Party
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Bush positively spins weak economic data
The Swampby Frank James Maybe the economy will pick up during the rest of the year. Optimism is healthy, isn't it? But the economy certainly had a poor first half in 2008, growing 1.9 percent in the second quarter, the Commerce......Tags: Career and Workplace, Nancy Pelosi, Employees, Economic Policy, Economy
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Health care drops off the radar screen
The Swampby Jill Zuckman What happened to health care? In the daily rat-a-tat-tat between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, the silence is deafening. It was once the "it" topic of public policy that helped propel the Clintons into office, sparked......Tags: Defense, Politics, Medical Services, Government, Private Health Care
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Doubletake: Global trading cards
The SwampA factory in Vietnam. Doubletake is back for the new fall season. Each day, Tribune correspondents Jim Tankersley and Jim Oliphant slice through the spin with shining machetes of truth, all the while straining metaphors to the max. Jim......Tags: Politics, Dennis J. Kucinich, Sales, Globalization, Metal and Mineral
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Palin v. Biden: Top-five goals for each
The Swampby James Oliphant WILMINGTON, Del. -- Sarah Palin meets Joe Biden tonight. And a nation is watching. The sole debate between the candidates for vice president plays out on a campus stage in St. Louis, drawing intensive scrutiny on the......Tags: Politics, Constitutional Issues, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Government, Family
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Job losses highest in five years
The Swampby Frank James The economy continued to lose jobs in September, with 159,000 jobs evaporating during the month, producing the highest number of job losses in five years though the unemployment rate held steady at 6.1 percent. The job losses......Tags: Career and Workplace, Wages and Pensions, Metal and Mineral, Employment, Economy, Business and Finance
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