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Column: ‘Historical’ UAW accident, certainly — Jeep staff accident in Toledo is one way or the other a primary

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Thru its numerous company homeowners between Global Battle II and 1987 — Toledo’s Jeep operations transferred from Willys-Overland to Kaiser (1953) to American Motors (1970) — Toledo’s Jeep plant wasn’t part of what used to be after referred to as “The Big Three” till it used to be bought through Chrysler Corp.

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How to Prevent a Power Outage From Becoming a Crisis

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There are technical reasons that contributed to faster repairs in Manhattan, but in general the neighborhoods that waited the longest to have their power restored tended to be poorer and less white. The recent record-breaking heat in Oregon and Washington state, for example, claimed more than 200 lives. COVID-19 changed all that.

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Pong Was Boring—And People Loved It

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His house was the first in the neighborhood to have a home version of Pong. Lynn Heidelbaugh, a museum curator in Washington, D.C., To this day, references to Frogger inevitably surface whenever I make ill-timed attempts at jaywalking in the city. remembers watching her older brothers play.

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Overcoming Systemic Racism Through System Engineering

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In parts of the United States, using the term “systemic racism” to refer to persistent discrimination against Black people has become a political flash point. Her assignment was to map out an expansion of Year Up from Boston to either Washington, D.C., When she graduated in 2005, the nonprofit hired her to open the Washington location.

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The Long View from SAE 2009 World Congress

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One of the keys to TOD is to desegregate commercial and residential land use so people live near where they work and even if they have to commute to work the distributed nature housing and commercial avoids the overcrowding in one direction you experience with dedicated residential neighborhoods. Washington, D.C.: Luca Guala.

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BMW unveils the production i3 in New York, London and Beijing; efficiency, dynamics and a supporting ecosystem of services

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In addition to being extremely fuel-efficient, the 118d is produced on the next line over to the i3 in Leipzig, making it a good reference baseline, Dr. Weber said.). The SGL carbon fiber plant at Moses Lake, Washington, uses 100% hydropower.

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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The life cycle to which we refer has two parts: The vehicle cycle begins with mining the raw materials, refining them, turning them into components, and assembling them. Promoting mixed-use neighborhoods—areas that put work and residence in proximity—would allow more bicycling and walking. But coal use varies, even within China.