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Until 1948 the station wagon had been a utility vehicle, with a wooden body and little in the way of creature comforts. In 1949 Chrysler introduced an all-steel wagon in its entry-level Plymouth ...
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In 1997 Toyota introduced its four-passenger Prius hybrid to the Japanese market. Combining a small gasoline engine and an electric motor through a sophisticated control system, the Prius uses ...
British Leyland Motor Corporation, Ltd.
historic British automotive corporation. It was formed through the 1968 merger of British Motor Holdings Ltd. and Leyland Motor Corp. Ltd. to create the entities known as British Leyland Motor ...
Economic Affairs
The U.S. economy in 2005 endured a host of catastrophes, both natural and man-made, yet it managed not to fall into recession. To analysts this indicated that either the economy had levels of ...
police
To be effective, police forces must be in close proximity to the citizens they serve. The first and most basic means of maintaining that close contact was the foot patrol. Officers were deployed by ...
Media and Publishing
Countries began imposing deadlines on media organizations to switch from analog to digital broadcasting even as the Internet and mobile telephone became new venues for TV programming. Free digital TV ...
Business Overview
Historians might look back at 2006 as the year when the automobile era dominated by the Big Three automakers ended for good. Ford, General Motors, and, later in the year, DaimlerChrysler together ...
Dates of 2008
Mongolian Pres. Nambaryn Enkhbayar declares a state of emergency in response to riots over allegations of fraud in recent legislative elections; the disturbances cause great destruction in the ...
Dates of 2007
The Lebanese army attacks Fatah al-Islam positions outside the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp for most of the day; at least 18 people are killed. |
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