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Big car (glug glug) glut.(Business)(With high gas prices, local dealers find thirsty SUVs, trucks a hard sell)
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
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May 12, 2008
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Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard
An Excursion, Escalade or Hummer may have seemed like a good idea back in the olden days, when gas cost less than $3 per gallon. But with prices rapidly approaching $4 per gallon, consumer demand for those roomy, powerful and thirsty SUVs is plummeting.
New-car dealers are having trouble selling the big sport-utility vehicles, even with generous incentives from manufacturers, and owners who want to trade them in for something more fuel efficient are finding their rigs' value has gone way down.
"We have seen ...
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Optical disk storage spinning into wider use. (Technology/Operations)
Magazine article from: American Banker
; ...Innovative "Optical disks, intended to be...With the cost of optical disk storage coming down...12-inch optical disk can hold more than...a stand-alone optical terminal to large...several of these disks. It Works in N...information as optical disks in some ...
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Optical disk archiving: the coming revolution in data management.
Magazine article from: Medical Laboratory Observer
; ...technologies, optical disks have emerged with...system include an optical disk in a plastic cartridge...unalterability makes WORM optical disks ideal for the high...automatic searching, disk by disk, most commonly...contact with the optical disk surface, ...
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Optical units provide mass storage; rewritable optical-disk drives. (technical)
Magazine article from: EDN
; ...guarantee their disk drives for 10 years...the fact that optical disks are removable also...transport rewritable optical-disk cartridges from...and lock up the disks for security purposes...workstations' hard-disk drives to be removable...use. Because an ...
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PDO introduces erasable disk. (Philips and Du Pont Optical)
PR Newswire
; ...will permit erasable optical disks to be used as...devices to magnetic disks and in applications...document storage. Erasable optical disk technology as a replacement...commercialized. The erasable disk supplied to Maxtor joins...information storage disks. These include 5 ...
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Du Pont to expand optical disk plant. (Philips and Du Pont Optical)
PR Newswire
; ...Philips and Du Pont Optical (PDO) today announced an expansion of its optical disk manufacturing plant...to produce erasable disks. The expansion will...of erasable optical disks," said Ian Edwards...closer with leading optical disk drive companies to continue...
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Toshiba develops multimedia-use optical disk drive system.
Magazine article from: Information Today
; ...pictures--a single disk can store approximately...Overwritable magneto-optical disks have been promoted...phase-change optical disk drive system has...sided phase change optical disk used in Toshiba...megabyte (MB) disks. The large capacity...
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A study on the characteristics of antiplasticized polycarbonates and their optical disk substrates.
Magazine article from: Polymer Engineering and Science
; ...Internet. Particularly, optical disks such as CD-R (Recordable Compact Disk), MO (Magneto Optical Disk), or DVD (Digital...used in the optical disk production industry...the PC designed for optical disks is well adjusted to...
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IBM's multilevel optical disk named "Best of What's New".
Business Wire
; ...exist in today's optical disk drives to maintain...even on warped disks. Each surface is...year. Multilevel disks are expected to stimulate huge gains in optical-disk data storage capacities...written on a single disk surface. "By using multilevel disks, we are now ...
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Next-generation optical media is ideally suited for jukeboxes; 3M to launch 5.25-inch Magneto-Optical Disk Cartridge with capacity of 2.6 GB.
Business Wire
; ...mm) 2.6 GB Magneto-Optical (MO) Disk Cartridge, effective Feb...with current rewritable optical disks and is compatible with...third-generation MO disk cartridges. Rewritable optical disks are available in 1024 bytes...
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Dynamic CD-ROM growth boosts the 1996 outlook for optical disk drive shipments to more than 57 million.
Business Wire
; ...disks or rewritable disks, will add another 3...total of 57.6 million optical disk drives of all types...designed for conventional optical disks also continue to grow...designed to hold 1-39 optical disk cartridges. -- The...
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