U.S. automaker GM plans to close 1,100 dealerships

Friday, May 15, 2009 American automobile manufacturer General Motors (GM) announced plans Friday to shut down about 1,100 of its dealerships, in an effort to evade bankruptcy and lower its expenditures. GM’s move comes a day after Chrysler, another U.S. car maker, released a list of 789 dealerships that it was closing. Unlike Chrylser, GM will not publicly announce the dealerships that it intends to shut down. Instead, dealerships whose franchises won’t be renewed afterContinue reading

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On the campaign trail in the USA, October 2020

Monday, November 2, 2020 The following is the sixth and final edition of a monthly series chronicling the 2020 United States presidential election. It features original material compiled throughout the previous month after an overview of the month’s biggest stories. This month’s spotlight on the campaign trail: the Free and Equal Elections Foundation holds two presidential debates, three candidates who did not participate in those debates give their final pleas to voters, and three politicalContinue reading

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A Trip To The Dentist Can Be Routine Or Even An Exercise In Vanity

Here’s An Opinion On: Veneers For Celebrities New York Submitted by: Patrick Boswell Do you go for long periods of time without making a visit to your dentist? If you do then you should know that it is not serving your best interest in the long run to be playing an avoidance game with your oral hygiene. Many people shy away from the dentist because they have a fear of sitting back in the chair,Continue reading

Chilean President visits Pichilemu to inaugurate Agustín Ross Cultural Centre

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 The Chilean President, Michelle Bachelet, travelled to Pichilemu to inaugurate the Cultural Centre Agustín Ross last week, in the old Ross Casino, a National Monument since 1988, and the first casino in Chile. Bachelet passed by Cáhuil’s bridge, where she and her parents regularly went on holiday to, according the documentary Pichilemu: Así éramos ayer, así somos hoy (Pichilemu: That’s the way we were, that’s the way we are), which willContinue reading

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NASA mission to map the boundary of solar system

Sunday, October 19, 2008 NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) to map the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space will be launched on a Pegasus XL rocket today. The two year mission, costing US$165 million, will study the region in space where the solar wind from the sun suddenly slows down as it reaches the thin, cold gas of interstellar space. This region, called the heliospheric boundary of the solar system, helps to deflectContinue reading

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News briefs: May 19, 2012

Saturday, May 19, 2012 Wikinews Audio Briefs Dateline Saturday, May 19, 2012 Listen to this brief Problems? See our media guide. Retrieved from “https://en.wikinews.org/w/index.php?title=News_briefs:_May_19,_2012&oldid=1510512”

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Don’t Gamble On Franchise Funding Success . Finance Your Franchising Opportunity Properly!}

Here’s An Opinion On: Vehicle Leasing Bowen Don’t Gamble On Franchise Funding Success . Finance Your Franchising Opportunity Properly! by stanprokop Franchise funding in Canada. At times does it seem like you have to take a real gamble on the franchising opportunity just to complete a transaction properly? And then finance it? Is there a better way? We think there is, and here’s why, and how! We’re the first to admit making that franchise purchaseContinue reading

Two ill after eating burgers laced with multi-purpose cleaner in Bathurst, Australia

Thursday, March 25, 2010 A prank by three young kitchen staff at Hungry Jack’s fast food restaurant in the Central-Western New South Wales city of Bathurst went wrong when two customers required medical treatment after eating burgers they had laced with multi-purpose cleaner. According to staff at the Emergency Department of Bathurst Hospital, two Hungry Jack’s customers became ill Sunday night after eating burgers contaminated with a chemical believed to be multi-purpose cleaner. One ofContinue reading

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Zarqawi shows face in new video

Saturday, April 29, 2006 The first “visual issue” of the Emir of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was issued April 25, 2006, by the Mujahideen Shura Council. A thirty-four minute video containing an approximately twenty minute oration by Zarqawi, footage of him leading mujahideen in training on the battlefield and in a war room, and seated amongst local leaders of al-Anbar province. His speech touches upon a variety of topics, including the purportedly victoriousContinue reading

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Romanian tourism to be rebranded

Friday, May 6, 2005 Romania’s National Authority for Tourism (ANT) announced that they would promote tourism in Romania through a new branding strategy, in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development. The director of ANT, Marius Critonescu, said that the branding exercise will be “a significant component of the Romania’s development as a new tourist destination of international level.” He also added that the development of an integrated brand for Romanian tourism willContinue reading

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