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Gas prices knock bicycle sales, repairs into higher gear
The State
| BISMARCK, N.D. -- | Four-dollar-a-gallon gas is good for business - if you run a bike shop. Commuters around the country are dusting off their old two-wheelers - or buying new ones - to cope with rising fuel prices, bicycle dealers say. | "Everyone that comes in the shop is talking about the gas p...
Bicycle
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Gas prices knock bicycle sales, repairs into higher gear
Houston Chronicle
TOOLS | BISMARCK, N.D. - Four-dollar-a-gallon gas is good for business - if you run a bike shop. Commuters around the country are dusting off their old two-wheelers - or buying new ones - to cope with rising fuel prices, bicycle dealers say. | "Everyone that comes in the shop is talking about the ga...
April vehicle sales growth slows to 14%
China Daily
(Agencies) | Updated: 2008-05-12 17:25 | China's vehicle sales rose 14 percent in April, the slowest pace in almost two years, as a combination of inflation and a slumping stock market curbed demand for passenger cars. | Sales of passenger cars and c...
Amish salvage-store sales brisk in faltering economy
The Enquirer
| MESOPOTAMIA, Ohio - In a quiet gas-lit farmhouse on a frosty spring morning, two girls in bonnets and long blue dresses wind tape around expired bottles of Newman's Own salad dressing, and wipe dust off dented cans of vegetables and crumpled boxes ...
AAR's Sales Volume Up to Sh1.8 Billion
All Africa
AAR Health Services has recorded a 34 per cent growth in sales volume for the first three months of this year compared to the same period in 2007. | ...
Entrepreneurs hope to bring computer dating principals to real estate sales
Chicago Tribune
Consumers soon may put the same kind of research and analysis into deciding where to buy or build a home as corporations do when looking for a site for a new store, predicts Jack Dangermond, president of the Environmental Systems Research Institute I...
Citi plans $400bn asset sale 
Business Day
NEW YORK - Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit plans to get rid of about $400bn of assets over the next three years as he starts to whittle away at the company built by Sanford "Sandy" Weill. | When he is done, Citigroup may cease to be the biggest US bank, ...
The solution to all clutter can be found in the garage sale
The Business Review
| Regular Offbeat readers, whose names are kept secret to protect them from merciless ribbing by co-workers, know that I recently spent a great deal of time and effort cleaning out my childhood home. | Well, guess where much of that stuff wound up. Y...
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Nissan seeks to expand sales network
Gulf Daily News
| TOKYO: Japan's Nissan Motor Company said yesterday it had appointed Hover Automotive India Private to develop its sales network in India, with the aim of establishing 55 dealers ...
 Bangkok,Thailand - Cockles - Shellfish - Musseles - Crabs - River Prawns - Fishes - Seafood. (ps1)
WN / patricia
Shells Seafood Restaurants sales down in first quarter
Business Journal
> Same story for seafood chain: red ink [Tampa Bay] Shells CEO steps down [Tampa Bay] Shells: Higher minimum wage in Florida, tough environment, dog earnings [Tampa Bay] | Shells S...
 An Air Canada jet (top) lands as a Canadian Airlines airplane taxis on a runway at Pearson International Airport in Toronto Tuesday October 19, 1999. Air Canada is getting help from its major global partners - United Airlines and Lufthansa - on a plan th
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Fuel prices hamper Air Canada sale: ACE CEO
Canada Dot Com
| CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Surging jet fuel prices have cut odds that Air Canada will be sold in the near future, although its parent, ACE Aviation Holdings Inc , plans to wind...
Gas prices boost bicycle sales in US
The Times Of India
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China's April auto sales rise 14 percent, led by commercial vehicles
International Herald Tribune
| : An industry group says China's auto sales rose 14 percent in April from a year ago, led by strong sales of commercial vehicles. | The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said Monday that passenger vehicle sales rose 10.8 percent and sal...
Davises give a lift to truck sales
Richmond Times Dispatch
| Jason Carey of Chesterfield County wasn't satisfied with the height of the truck he bought in 2003. | After talking with friends, he decided to take his 2003 Ford F-250 King Ranch Crew Cab to Davis Auto Sales to have it lifted. | "They put 8 i...
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 KLdy1 - May07 - paddy field - rice field - agriculture - farming. (dy1)
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Enough stocks of non-basmati rice
Khaleej Times
| ABU DHABI ' Consumers in the capital can purchase rice from the Abu Dhabi Cooperative Society's (ADCS) all outlets as it has enough stocks of basmati and non-basmati rice to meet the local market demand for eight to 12 months, claims Bejoy Pulicken, spokesman of the society. | Several consumers this reporter spoke with complained of rise in the p...
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