The New York City health department begins letter-grading restaurant inspections, designating an A, B or C to rate the cleanliness of more than 24,000 restaurants in the five boroughs, it is also activating a new Web site that will “offer much more information and be more user-friendly,” said Daniel Kass, a deputy commissioner. “There...
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Want to try out an all-electric car for a few days before you decide to buy? Enterprise Rent-A-Car is going to start renting Nissan Leaf electrics beginning in January. There will only be 500 initially and they will be dispersed among eight cities: Phoenix; Tucson; Knoxville, Tenn.; Nashville; San Diego; Los Angeles; Portland, Ore.;...
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The Chevrolet Volt, the first mass-market electric vehicle from General Motors Co., will have a sticker price starting at $41,000 when it hits showrooms later this year. But government tax credits and rebates designed to speed the entry of electric vehicles into the marketplace will make the price more attractive. There’s a federal tax...
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QUITO July 26 – OPEC member Ecuador said it enacted a law on Monday aimed at increasing state control over the oil sector and that the legislation would permit the state to “liquidate” contracts of non-complying companies. Oil is Ecuador’s top export and President Rafael Correa’s government wants foreign companies to give up profit-sharing...
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President Obama called on the Senate today to pass a new law restricting corporate political contributions, saying it would “prevent special interests from gaining even more clout in Washington.” “The DISCLOSE Act would simply require corporate political advertisers to reveal who’s funding their activities,” Obama said during remarks in the White House Rose Garden....
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WASHINGTON – Owners of the iPhone will be able to legally break electronic locks on their devices in order to download software applications that haven’t been approved by Apple Inc., according to new government rules announced Monday. The decision to allow the practice commonly known as “jailbreaking” is one of a handful of new...
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A recall that parents need to hear about. Nap Nanny baby recliners are recalled because of a suffocation hazard. An infant in Michigan died when she got caught between the Nap Nanny and her crib bumper. The makers of the recliner say the Nap Nanny should always be used on the floor away from...
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A petite woman says Southwest Airlines removed her from a full flight to make room for an overweight teenager, The Sacramento Bee reports. The newspaper says the incident involving the 5-foot-4, 110-pound woman “happened last week on an early-evening Southwest flight from Las Vegas to Sacramento.” The Bee reports that the woman paid to...
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By Daniela Estrada SANTIAGO – More fixed capital investment to improve competition, greater added value to exported goods and services, and tax reforms to finance social policies are some of the challenges Latin America and the Caribbean face in the uncertain global economic panorama. “This year we are going to grow well, but next...
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Ford unveiled its redesigned Explorer SUV this morning in New York’s Herald Square. The new vehicle, which borrows design cues from Ford’s former Land Rover unit, represents the biggest change by far in Ford’s approach to its bread-and-butter family hauler and onetime sales superstar. Company officials say the new Explorer reflects CEO Alan Mulally’s philosophy of developing...
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