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NEW YORK — Pop-up restaurants, many started as stopgap measures by struggling chefs and owners, may have staying power as consumers continue to embrace takeout and delivery and the delta variant threatens to make dining in less of an option. Pop-up restaurants can take a variety of forms, from a ramen maker appearing for one-night [...]
TOKYO — Nearly three years later, former Nissan executive Greg Kelly is still wondering why the questions that led to his arrest and trial in Japan weren't simply taken up in the automaker's corporate boardroom. Kelly, an American lawyer who worked for three decades for Nissan Motor Co., is awaiting a verdict in his trial [...]
DETROIT — Rick Hendrick erased any doubt that marketing in motorsports is still effective when his automotive sales group bought the sponsorship rights through 2023 for NASCAR title contender Kyle Larson. With few companies willing to back Larson upon his return from a nearly yearlong suspension for using a racial slur, Hendrick put the website [...]
"Guaranteed loan approval; receive funds in 24 hours." "No credit check; interest rates starting at 0 percent; only low application fee required." These statements may sound pretty good to a small-business owner in desperate need of capital. But, as the old saying goes, "If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is," says [...]
FIREBAUGH, Calif. — As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California's agriculture-rich San Joaquin Valley, where a deepening drought threatens one of the state's most profitable crops. Del Bosque doesn't have enough water to properly irrigate his almond orchards, so he's practicing "deficit irrigation" [...]
PITTSBURGH (AP) — There is so much unwanted gas coming out of American coal mines — those that still produce coal and even those that have long quit — that federal data suggests it outpaces the carbon emissions footprint of the entire U.S. petrochemical industry. It is more than the greenhouse gas impact of all [...]
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. — A harvester rumbles through the fields in the early morning light, mowing down rows of corn and chopping up ears, husks and stalks into mulch for feed at a local dairy. The cows won't get their salad next year, at least not from this farm. There won't be enough water to [...]
The nonprofit organization spun off from Columbus-based insurance company Branch Insurance is bolstering its efforts to address issues surrounding uninsured motorists in America. SafetyNest hopes to raise the profile of the issue, which the Insurance Information Institute estimates impacts about 1 in 8 drivers, by signing on Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett to highlight [...]
As software and other technologies get infused in more and more products, manufacturers are increasingly making those products difficult to repair, potentially costing business owners time and money. Makers of products ranging from smartphones to farm equipment can withhold repair tools and create software-based locks that prevent even simple updates, unless they're done by a [...]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Gamblers anxious to hit the slot machines and table games in person after a year of coronavirus restrictions are lifting the U.S. casino industry to its best year ever. But the great unknown is whether a new, more contagious variant of COVID-19 will slow an industry that is now winning [...]