"trade-ins" Articles & Blogs:
Daily Dose of Inspiration and Adventure!
| “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
~Mark Twai...[Read on] |
Connecticut and Minnesota swap draft picks, Trade Montgomery and Whalen
| The big news in the WNBA is that Connecticut and Minnesota have traded first-round draft picks. Previously, Minnesota had the #1 Draft Pick and Connecticut had the #2 overall pick.Trade:to Connecticut: Minnesota's first round draft pick (#1 overall&...[Read on] |
How car insurance affects Cash for Clunkers
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The government’s Cash for Clunkers program is back on track and many Americans are heading to car dealers to swap their older cars for new ones. What many people may not realize is that to trade-in an older car, it has to have had car insurance for at l...[Read on] |
Australia's first female Prime Minister
| Australia appointed its first woman prime minister, Julia Gillard, who vowed to end division over a controversial mining tax, resurrect a carbon trade scheme and call elections within months.
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd made an emotional and ignomin...[Read on] |
Emma Thompson gets star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Credit: WENN.com/FayesVision
How may actresses in Hollywood (or anywhere for that matter) would get dressed up looking like Nanny McPhee, when you have no chance to win an Oscar for that performance. Not many women would don that attire even for Osca...[Read on] |
On the anniversary of 9/11, what do you carry in your heart about this day?
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Julia Reed, Cynthia McFadden, Candice Bergen, Liz Smith, Joan Juliet Buck, Joan Ganz Cooney and Judith Martin recall what touched them — and what will never leave them from — that fateful day in 2001Question of the Day | Today 6:00 amJudith Ma...[Read on] |
Car Allowance Rebate System - On and Off, and On Again!
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When the Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS) program was finally officially enacted last week, car shoppers swarmed automotive dealerships to take advantage of the $3500 or $4500 rebates offered when trading in their less-efficient clunkers for more fuel-...[Read on] |
How Bristol Palin Can Avoid Dancing with the Stars Humiliation, the Sarah Palin Way
| Last night saw the Dancing with the Stars debut of Bristol Palin. For all her hip-shaking and shoulder-shimmying, the Alaskan actress/public relations executive had a thoroughly mediocre showing. Gawker called her performance “grody,” which is...[Read on] |
Toyota and Honda under recall; Ford, GM, Chrysler answer with trade-in incentives
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Two popular Japanese automotive brands have been taking a pounding lately.
In September 2009, Toyota announced that it would recall 3.8 million vehicles to adjust floormats that could cause accelerators to get stuck and lead to a crash. And just a few ...[Read on] |
The Buy vs. Lease Debate - What do you need to know?
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Differences Between Buying and LeasingThe main difference between buying and leasing an automobile is when you buy an auto, you own it and get to keep the vehicle once the contract is fulfilled. When you lease an automobile, you are borrowing the vehicl...[Read on] |
What’s the difference between leasing and buying a vehicle?
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Knowing the Answer Helps Consumers Make an Educated Decision
With leasing making a comeback, consumers again are faced with the option of buying or leasing a vehicle. While buying and leasing each have their own advantages, they have important differen...[Read on] |
Venice gets its first female gondolier
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It’s a familiar site on the water street of Venice, the striped shirts and flat hats of the gondoliers expertly steering their black boats underneath bridge after bridge in the picturesque city.
And now, after 900 years, the canals of Venice, Italy f...[Read on] |
Women & Wine Goes to the Family Winemakers Event in LA
| You may wonder why I'm writing about this - snore - another wine event that you can't attend unless you're a member of the trade or media (we're both). But this story is different.
I look forward to this event more than any other in Los Angeles - and thi...[Read on] |
What They Forget to Teach in High School
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My daughter graduated from college last week, and although I've known her for 22 years, I'm still amazed at this miracle that has grown from a good idea in my mind into a fabulous, full-grown person. When I thought about having a kid, the reality was comp...[Read on] |
Car Business Language & Lingo-Epilogue
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“Using All The Terms In One Short Story”
I was going into work one day and my thoughts were focused on selling a car. I had a couple of bad days where it seemed like everything went wrong. The “Up” I had turned out to be a “Bogue” that was a...[Read on] |
Why were Laura Ling and Euna Lee in North Korea?
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Absent from reporting on the imprisonment and release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, which has taken the disturbing turn of focusing on the power dynamic between the Clintons, is the story the journalists were investigating in the first place. A piece by Ji-...[Read on] |
Mississippi River Project: The earth remains forever
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(Editors Note: Composer – and good friend – Eve Beglarian has developed an obsession with the Mississippi River: especially the impact of the river on the development of American culture. She recently embarked on a year long odyssey traveling the len...[Read on] |
Ways to Stretch Your Golf Budget
| If you’re like most of us in today’s troubled economic times you are finding it difficult to play as much golf as you would like and to afford the necessary equipment. Certainly there more important things in this world than playing golf, like eating,...[Read on] |
Cash For Clunkers - Is It Green or Green Backs?
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The term "Cash for Clunkers" might sound familiar to you - it's a hot topic in the news and across the automotive blogs right now. Details: Two bills are currently under consideration in the House and Senate, each of them offering their own set of pros a...[Read on] |
Women & Wine - Things We Should be Buying or Doing For Our Emotional Well Being
| This is the constant conversation that is now starting to make its way into the press - I know this for a fact because as I was checking out of the grocery store this a.m. the Newsweek cover barked out at me START SHOPPING NOW.
This is a I have been talk...[Read on] |
Hold That Line: Update on Abortion in Health Reform
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by Micole Allekotte, Health Fellow, National Women's Law Center
As the clock ticks down on a Senate vote on Health Reform, my high school cheerleaders’ rallying cry to the defense, “HOLD—THAT—LINE!” comes to mind. Health reform will ensure ...[Read on] |
WNBA: Something just ain't right
| Something is different about the WNBA this year.I'm not talking about the so-called parity that has resulted in teams with veteran basketball stars regularly getting their butts kicked. I'm talking about the way many longtime WNBA supporters and fans have...[Read on] |
ChickSpeak hearts The Black Keys
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You would probably never guess it by looking at them, but blues rock band The Black Keys are subtly ushering in a new age of musical genius.The seemingly nondescript pair, never wearing much more than their own jeans and Converse in videos, effortlessly b...[Read on] |
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