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5 new accidents involving Toyota Prius confirmed: report
Published on 6 Feb, 2010 at 12:04 in Business | Viewed 4,134 times | 15 Comments
The Japanese government has confirmed five new accidents involving Toyota Motor’s Prius hybrids and will urge the troubled car giant to investigate the cases, a newspaper reported Saturday. The Transport Ministry has received some 80 complaints in February about malfunctions in the brake system of the latest model of the flagship Prius, the Tokyo Shimbun
Beazer Homes posts a $48 million profit for Q1
Published on 6 Feb, 2010 at 12:04 in Business | Viewed 1,107 times | No Comments
Homebuyers spurred by low interest rates and government incentives helped lift Beazer Homes USA Inc.’s sales in the last three months of 2009, but the builder only turned a profit because of a hefty tax gain. Management said Friday it expects to reel in more home shoppers this year, but stopped short of forecasting a
WA among states weighing sale of liquor business
Thousands of cases of whiskey, vodka and rum zip along three miles of conveyor belts inside a massive distribution center in industrial south Seattle, the sole location for shipping booze to liquor stores across Washington state. The 250,000-square-foot warehouse is the nexus from which all of the state’s liquor is imported, processed, and moved out
Toyota chief apologizes for massive global recalls
Toyota’s president emerged from seclusion Friday to apologize and address criticism that the automaker mishandled a crisis over sticking gas pedals. Yet he stopped short of ordering a recall for the company’s iconic Prius hybrid for braking problems. Akio Toyoda, appointed to the top job at Toyota Motor Corp. last June, promised to beef up
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