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ARCA Flat Rock Factsheet

ARCA Flat Rock Factsheet

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ARCA Kil Kare Factsheet

ARCA Kil Kare Factsheet

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Automakers Support Proposed Sulfur Reductions in Diesel Fuels By TOSCO

Automakers Support Proposed Sulfur Reductions in Diesel Fuels By TOSCO

Statement by Gregory J. Dana, Vice President, Environmental Affairs, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, in response to TOSCO Corporation's announcement that it supports reductions in sulfur for on-road diesel fuel: ... Continue reading

CAD/IQ Now Embedded in CAD Systems with New Manufacturability Diagnostics

CAD/IQ Now Embedded in CAD Systems with New Manufacturability Diagnostics

International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI), the world's leading supplier of product data interoperability solutions, announces the release of CAD/IQ(TM) version 3.0. ... Continue reading

Campbell, Windham, and Edwards savor Honda victories

Campbell, Windham, and Edwards savor Honda victories

Campbell, Windham, and Edwards savor Honda victories ... Continue reading

CART: 'Inside CART' TV show to make its debut on ESPN2

CART: 'Inside CART' TV show to make its debut on ESPN2

CART: 'Inside CART' TV show to make its debut on ESPN2 ... Continue reading

CART partners with Detroit Tigers for Grand Prix of Detroit promotion

CART partners with Detroit Tigers for Grand Prix of Detroit promotion

CART partners with Detroit Tigers for Grand Prix of Detroit ... Continue reading

Code-Alarm Announces Plan to Pay off Debt

Code-Alarm Announces Plan to Pay off Debt

Code Alarm, Inc. announced that it has reached an agreement with Detroit Technology Ventures, LLC (DTV) and its primary investors to pay off its senior debt by issuing two new classes of preferred equity. ... Continue reading

Corporate Express Named General Motors' Supplier of the Year

Corporate Express Named General Motors' Supplier of the Year

Corporate Express, A Buhrmann Company, has been named a General Motors Supplier of the Year for 1999. ... Continue reading

Detroit Diesel to Supply Diesel Engines to Ford Motor Company

Detroit Diesel to Supply Diesel Engines to Ford Motor Company

Detroit Diesel Corporation(http://www.detroitdiesel.com ) announced it has reached agreement with Ford Motor Company to supply 2.5L, 16-valve diesel engines for a Ford vehicle sold outside the United States. ... Continue reading

Fire at INTERMET German Foundry

Fire at INTERMET German Foundry

INTERMET Corporation suffered a serious fire at its Neunkirchen, Germany, foundry at approximately 9:30 p.m. EDT on Friday, May 19, 2000. There were no injuries. ... Continue reading

FleetPride Acquires Fleet Parts Warehouse of Louisiana, Inc.

FleetPride Acquires Fleet Parts Warehouse of Louisiana, Inc.

FleetPride, the nation's largest aftermarket distributor of heavy-duty truck parts, today announced the acquisition of Fleet Parts Warehouse of Louisiana, located in Baton Rouge ... Continue reading

Gas Prices Falling, AAA Reports

Gas Prices Falling, AAA Reports

The average price of self-serve regular unleaded gasoline in central and western Washington has decreased 8.4 cents since Easter weekend to $1.587 per gallon ... Continue reading

Gentex Named General Motors Supplier of the Year

Gentex Named General Motors Supplier of the Year

General Motors has named Gentex Corporation, the leading supplier of automatic-dimming rearview mirrors to the worldwide automotive industry, a 1999 Supplier of the Year. ... Continue reading

Governor's Office on Highway Safety and MetLife Auto & Home Kick Off Buckle-Up America Week

Governor's Office on Highway Safety and MetLife Auto & Home Kick Off Buckle-Up America Week

The Rhode Island Governor's Office on Highway Safety and MetLife Auto & Home kicked off Buckle-Up America Week at MetLife Auto & Home's headquarters in Warwick, RI today ... Continue reading

HP Inks Agreement with Delphi to Embed Chai Software in Mobile Product

HP Inks Agreement with Delphi to Embed Chai Software in Mobile Product

Hewlett-Packard announced a seven-year, multimillion-dollar licensing agreement with Delphi to embed HP's ChaiVM virtual machine for Java(TM) applications and ChaiAWT graphics display software in a mobile multimedia product now under development. ... Continue reading

INDY 500: Help from rival keeps Kite soaring toward race day

INDY 500: Help from rival keeps Kite soaring toward race day

INDY 500: Help from rival keeps Kite soaring toward race day ... Continue reading

INDY 500: Matsuda in good condition after surgery

INDY 500: Matsuda in good condition after surgery

INDY 500: Matsuda in good condition after surgery ... Continue reading

INDY LIGHTS: Houston Added To Dayton Indy Lights Championship Schedule

INDY LIGHTS: Houston Added To Dayton Indy Lights Championship Schedule

Houston Added To Dayton Indy Lights Championship Schedule Following Aruba Cancellation ... Continue reading

Johnson Controls Extends CRM Pact With Saratoga Systems

Johnson Controls Extends CRM Pact With Saratoga Systems

Saratoga Systems, Inc. announced that Johnson Controls, a global market leader in automotive systems and facility management and control has upgraded its CRM system to Saratoga Systems' Avenue. ... Continue reading

Memorial Day National Effort To Enforce Seat Belt Laws Launched</STRONG>

Memorial Day National Effort To Enforce Seat Belt Laws Launched</STRONG>

With the Memorial Day weekend approaching, U.S. Transportation Secretary Rodney E. Slater was joined by national and local leaders in launching the Air Bag & Seat Belt Safety Campaign's sixth "Operation ABC (America Buckles Children) Mobilization." ... Continue reading

Meritor Automotive's Wheel, Roof and Door Systems Groups Honored by GM

Meritor Automotive's Wheel, Roof and Door Systems Groups Honored by GM

Meritor Automotive accepted three 1999 Supplier of the Year awards from General Motors Corporation during ceremonies at the historic PrinzRegenten Theater in Munich, Germany. ... Continue reading

NASCAR BGN: Rady Lajoie CARQUEST Auto Parts 300 Preview

NASCAR BGN: Rady Lajoie CARQUEST Auto Parts 300 Preview

NASCAR BGN: Rady Lajoie CARQUEST Auto Parts 300 Preview ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Jerry Nadeau Racing Preview, Charlotte

NASCAR WCUP: Jerry Nadeau Racing Preview, Charlotte

NASCAR WCUP: Jerry Nadeau Racing Preview, Charlotte ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Kenny Wallace/Square D Racing Review-Preview

NASCAR WCUP: Kenny Wallace/Square D Racing Review-Preview

NASCAR WCUP: Kenny Wallace/Square D Racing Review-Preview ... Continue reading

NASCAR WCUP: Stewart has a clearer picture for this year's Coca Cola 600

NASCAR WCUP: Stewart has a clearer picture for this year's Coca Cola 600

NASCAR WCUP: Stewart has a clearer picture for this year's Coca Cola 600 ... Continue reading

NHRA: Team Exide, Englishtown to be continued

NHRA: Team Exide, Englishtown to be continued

NHRA: Team Exide, Englishtown to be continued ... Continue reading

Pfingsten Partners Acquires Four Wheel Drive Hardware

Pfingsten Partners Acquires Four Wheel Drive Hardware

Pfingsten Partners, L.L.C., announced the acquisition of Four Wheel Drive Hardware, Inc., of Columbiana, Ohio. ... Continue reading

Pickups Plus Retains Southern Financial Services for National Mergers

Pickups Plus Retains Southern Financial Services for National Mergers

Pickups Plus, Inc. announced that Southern Financial Services, an investment banking firm, has been retained to start an aggressive national campaign of mergers and acquisition on behalf of Pickups Plus. ... Continue reading

Six Kentucky Teachers Win Toyota-Sponsored Study Trip to Japan

Six Kentucky Teachers Win Toyota-Sponsored Study Trip to Japan

The Institute of International Education has announced that six Kentucky teachers won a Toyota-sponsored competition that will bring them to Japan this summer for an educational and cultural study program ... Continue reading

Supreme Court Rules on Air Bag Case

Supreme Court Rules on Air Bag Case

Supreme Court Rules on Air Bag Case ... Continue reading

Telenetics Is Selected To Build TruckLink Wireless System For Mack Truck

Telenetics Is Selected To Build TruckLink Wireless System For Mack Truck

Telenetics Corporation announced that it has been selected to build the TruckLink(TM), a new wireless diagnostic, maintenance and vehicle location system for Mack Trucks, Inc. ... Continue reading

Thor Reports Sales, Earnings

Thor Reports Sales, Earnings

Thor Industries, Inc. announced record results for the third quarter and nine months ended April 30, 2000. ... Continue reading

UAW Members Ratify First Contract at 3 COLFOR Plants

UAW Members Ratify First Contract at 3 COLFOR Plants

Over 600 members of the UAW ratified a five-year contract at the Salem, OH, Malvern, OH, and Minerva, OH plants of COLFOR, Manufacturing at a meeting held Sunday, May 21, 2000 by a 79% margin. ... Continue reading

USAC: Australian Champion Polishes off Perris Midget Field

USAC: Australian Champion Polishes off Perris Midget Field

USAC: Australian Champion Polishes off Perris Midget Field ... Continue reading

USAC: Drake eyes Saturday's 'Night before the 500' Classic at IRP

USAC: Drake eyes Saturday's 'Night before the 500' Classic at IRP

USAC: Drake eyes Saturday's 'Night before the 500' Classic at IRP ... Continue reading

USAC/F2000: Canadian Camirand & Irishman Walsh First at Mosport

USAC/F2000: Canadian Camirand & Irishman Walsh First at Mosport

USAC/F2000: Canadian Camirand & Irishman Walsh First at Mosport ... Continue reading

USAC: Leffler wire-to-wire in Coca Cola 100

USAC: Leffler wire-to-wire in Coca Cola 100

USAC: Leffler wire-to-wire in Coca Cola 100 ... Continue reading

USAC: Sprint cars at Anderson Wednesday, Eldora Sunday

USAC: Sprint cars at Anderson Wednesday, Eldora Sunday

USAC: Sprint cars at Anderson Wednesday, Eldora Sunday ... Continue reading

Volkswagen Beetle GLS (2000)

Volkswagen Beetle GLS (2000)

Volkswagen Beetle GLS Review ... Continue reading

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