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Junkyard Find: 2008 Mercury Sable, Press Loaner Flashback Edition

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If you're desperate for Colorado junkyard Corvair content, check out this '63 Monza Club Coupe I shot a few months ago or this '68 500 Sport Coupe I shot last month. The original Sable was a Mercurized Ford Taurus , sold from the 1986 through 2005 model years. Here's a shiny new 3.5-liter

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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And in 2005, the Chinese computer maker Lenovo Group purchased IBM's PC business. engineers were forming hobby clubs to learn about the new machines. But it took more than a year and scores of meetings for IBM's contract and legal teams to authorize the terms. At IBM plants in San Diego, Endicott, N.Y, and Poughkeepsie, N.Y.,

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EPA proposes repeal of Obama Clean Power Plan

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Released in 2015 by the Obama Administration EPA, the CPP established the first national standards to limit CO 2 emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants (Electric Generating Units, EGUs), with a target of a 32% reduction against a 2005 baseline by 2030. Earlier post.). EPA has now sent the NPRM to the Federal Register for publication.

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