Even Trucks Hit the Wall in an Erratic 2007
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Sales of pickup trucks, long a steady supplier of hefty profits to automakers, were slowed in 2007 by gas prices and housing ills.
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A year ago, the housing market was cooling, interest rates were on the rise and the conventional wisdom was that 2006 would be the year that the U.S. economy sputtered. One could be forgiven for thinking that the Washington regional economy would slow down after a blistering three years.
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Road casualty figures show a fall but there is controversy about their accuracy.
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Satellite images of the world in 2007
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2007 was a year of duality for music. While the industry continued to tank, it was quietly a very good year for rock 'n' roll and indie music.
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Thursday brings a new crop of figures for investors to digest after 2008 got off to a rough start on the Street.
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The bond market wasn&#39;t supposed to finish out the year this way. With the dollar slumping, the US economy improving and the Federal Reserve taking action to keep growth in check, the good times were supposed to fizzle.
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There were plenty of memorable moments in the 2007 college football season and not all of them were on the field.
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More than a half-million overweight trucks are allowed onto the nation's roads and bridges &#151; an increasingly routine practice that some officials say is putting dangerous wear and tear on an already groaning infrastructure.
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The average U.S. motorist spends 46  hours each year or nearly two full days stuck in rush-hour  traffic jams.
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Despite financial market volatility, U.S. technology companies had a strong 2007. The rising cost of energy, fears of recession, and forecasts of a slowdown in IT spending, however, point to a rocky 2008.
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By Bill Miller, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 14--An overturned tractor-trailer forced the closure early Wednesday of westbound Interstate 30 at the downtown Dallas mixmaster.   The single-vehicle wreck occurred at 3:40 a.m. The driver wasn't hurt, a police dispatcher said.
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A truck carrying 12 million honeybees hit a wall on a highway ramp, dumping its load across the pavement shortly before the evening rush hour.
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Last year was great, but next year remains up in the air.
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In one sense, it would not be unprecedented for Gordon and the No. 24 team to rebound from the aftermath of Sunday&#39;s Hendrick Motorsports plane crash to finish well at Atlanta; Kevin Harvick won there in 2001
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Almost since the invention of the automobile, the large, elegant sedan dominated the nation's highways, symbolic of America's success and power. But the oil crises of the 1970s put a serious crimp in that gas-guzzling style, and Americans went through the '80s driving smaller, high-mileage cars, often compact and subcompact imports.
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BOHMTE, Germany -- Like countless other communities, this west German town lived for years with a miserable traffic problem. Each day, thousands of cars and big trucks barreled along the two-lane main street, forcing pedestrians and cyclists to scamper for their lives.