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Fleet Sales No Longer Dirty Words for Automakers
2013-09-04 21:35:12| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
Automakers have had to change their standard operating procedures since being hit hard financially in 2008-2009. Fleet sales has been one of the changeovers tied into attempting to stabilize funding, remarketing, and increasing retail new vehicles sales at higher transaction prices. The days of fleet sales being a dumping ground appear to have ended. Fleet and even rental fleet are no longer dirty words deserving of blanket criticism, said Maryann Keller, an auto industry consultant and former director at Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc..The Article Fleet Sales No Longer Dirty Words for Automakers appeared first on Automotive Digest.
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Greenland Ice Hides Gorge Longer than the Grand Canyon
2013-08-30 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: A massive gorge nearly twice as long as the Grand Canyon is hidden under Greenland's ice sheet, reports a team of researchers from the U.K, Canada, and Italy. With a width of about six miles and a maximum depth of 2,600 feet, the previously undiscovered canyon is as wide as its Arizona counterpart and nearly half as deep. Flowing water likely carved the canyon long before the formation of the mile-deep ice sheet that has blanketed it for the past few million years. Researchers found the feature using...
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Future Wildfire Seasons to Be Longer, Smokier, and Cover More Area
2013-08-29 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Fire seasons will be three weeks longer, generate twice as much smoke, and cover a larger area of the western U.S. by 2050, a new study from Harvard researchers finds. The risk of large fires could also increase by a factor of two to three. In general, the biggest driver for future fires in Western states will be temperature, but driving factors can vary from region to region, the researchers say. In the Rockies, for example, moisture in the forest floor is the biggest predictor. Wildfires in the...
To eat more healthfully, students need longer lunch periods
2013-08-28 20:28:00| American School & University
Report says many students aren't given enough time to eat lunches that meet more stringent nutritional standards. Schoolhouse Beat read more
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Cleshar to extend London Overground platforms to accommodate longer trains
2013-08-19 01:00:00| Railway Technology
Transport for London (TfL) has selected Cleshar to lengthen station platforms on the east and south London routes of the London Overground network to accommodate longer trains.
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