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Detroit Three Continuing Slide
KickingTiresAs auto sales slump across the nation, domestic automakers are taking the brunt of the damage. Total U.S. sales are down 11.2 percent for the year, but the drop isn't being felt proportionally by each company and brand. All three......Tags: Microsoft Corporation, Sales, Real Estate Sales, Automotive Equipment
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New Car Tracker: 9.8.08
KickingTiresOriginally slated for a September release date, Honda's redesigned subcompact Fit jumped the gun and went on sale Aug. 26 to overlap with decreasing 2008 inventory and high demand for the fuel-efficient hatchback. There are already hundreds of 2009 Fits.....Tags: Passenger Cars, Ford, Jaguar, Mazda, Saturn
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Movers and Losers: August's Top Economy Cars
KickingTiresOur new/old list format is under fire, but we stand behind its goal of painting a picture of what???s happening at the dealer level versus the industry level. Regardless, we all know economy cars are hot, and our list for......Tags: Vehicles, Ford, Saturn, Scion, Pontiac
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Movers and Losers: August Top 10
KickingTiresWe???re back to a simpler format, just listing new cars and how many days it takes them to sell, from the day they reach the lot to the day they drive home with a happy new owner. Remember, folks, this......Tags: Passenger Cars, Vehicles, Ford, Scion, Hummer
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Corvette Production Takes a Break as Sales Sag
KickingTiresGeneral Motors will give production of the Chevrolet Corvette a rest the week of Oct. 6. When its Bowling Green, Kentucky, assembly plant returns to work after the break, it will have 75 fewer workers and turn out 3.5 fewer......Tags: Vehicles, Services and Shopping, Sports Cars, Sales, Chevrolet
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Movers and Losers: August's SUVs
KickingTiresDespite the general perception that nobody wants a new SUV, there are a lot of utility vehicles moving off lots much faster than the industry average 70 days. While three of August???s movers were hybrids, many were also large and/or......Tags: Vehicles, Cadillac, Buick, Ford, GMC
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Ring Lardner Jr., last of the Hollywood 10, dies
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersRing Lardner Jr., the Academy Award-winning screenwriter who was imprisoned for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee, has died of cancer. He was 85. The last survivor of the so-called Hollywood 10, a group of...Tags: David O. Selznick, FBI, John Howard, Grantland Rice, Crime, Law and Justice
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A maternal instinct ... to flee
Tribune staff reporterMy daughter, who will turn 3 in July, lights up my life. She's funny, sweet, smart and kind in a 2-year-old sort of way. She walks into a room with her hands over her caramel-colored eyes, and before you can say peek-a-boo, she's bathing you with a 1,000-...Tags: Death, Breast, Murder, High Blood Pressure, Hospitals and Clinics
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Girls basketball conference previews
Chicago Public League Superconference Marshall is the team to beat in this loaded section because, let's face it, Marshall is always the team to beat. But if there is a year the Commandos are vulnerable, this may be it. Young just may have the best...Tags: Multi-Sport Events, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Basketball, University of Illinois at Chicago, Roman Catholicism
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Summer of same
Tribune movie reporterThe sequels and franchise flicks scored big last summer, so what do we get? More of the same this year. Check out the titles, and you might conclude that this is the year of the colon. But don't be fooled by the amount of noise generated by the highest-...Tags: Sexual Assault, Stephen Norrington, Companies and Corporations, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Bay
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From pain, a new purpose
Tribune staff reporterThey sat in the family room of their new house, their new baby asleep in his new bassinet. The sliding-glass door to the patio looked out on a cloudy sky that, before midnight, would erupt in thunderstorms. Jennifer Mudd Houghtaling began to ask her...Tags: Pregnancy and Childbirth, Death, Mood Disorders, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Entertainment
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