PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, May 26, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, May 26, 2006

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More Than Four in Ten Car Owners Are Cutting Back Due to High Gas Prices

As the summer driving season kicks off with the Memorial Day weekend exodus, forty-four percent of car owners say they have cut back on products or services in order to compensate for the rising costs of gasoline. Not surprisingly, those with lower incomes are more likely than those with higher incomes to say they are cutting back, but even thirty-seven percent of those car owners who earn seventy-five thousand dollars or more say they have cut back on products or spending. Specifically, three in ten of these car owners say they are dining out less (twenty-nine percent) and reducing their driving (twenty-nine percent) while about one quarter (twenty-four percent) say they are cutting back on groceries in order to pay for gasoline.

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Negligent Driving Blamed for First Increase in Highway Fatality Rate in Two Decades

Reacting to the first increase in the nation's highway fatality rate in more than two decades, the American Beverage Institute (A-B-I) encouraged law enforcement officials to target negligent drivers this Memorial Day, when millions of holiday travelers take to the highways.

Negligent driving -- which consists of speeding, distracted driving, and drunk driving -- is the primary reason that the number of highway fatalities per miles traveled went up in 2005 for the first time in twenty years.

According to preliminary statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, an estimated forty-three-thousand-two-hundred people were killed on the nation's highways in 2005, or one-point-four-six fatalities for every hundred million vehicle miles traveled, up from one-point-four-four in 2004.

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The President Is Supporting Our Troops on Memorial Day - Six Flags President Mark Shapiro, That Is

The President has announced an initiative to support America's troops on Memorial Day -- Six Flags President Mark Shapiro, that is. In honor of America's armed forces, Six Flags will contribute five dollars from every Six Flags season pass sold over the four-day holiday weekend to buy toys for the children of American troops overseas.

The promotion will begin Friday, May 26th and run through Monday, May 29th. Guests can purchase a season pass at any Six Flags theme park, water park or online at Six-Flags-dot-com; the passes are good for entry all season long at any of Six Flags' thirteen parks.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3219404

We've Got Another Hot One, America! Cingular's Text Messaging Results Set New Record on the Fifth Season of Fox's 'American Idol'

Cingular Wireless has announced it has shattered its own record for wireless text messaging during the fifth season of "American Idol." Cingular recorded more than sixty-four-point-five million text messages throughout the show's season, breaking last year's record of forty-one-point-five million text messages. Text messages include votes, trivia, sweepstakes entries, chats, fan club and vote number reminder.

Full story at: http://media.prnewswire.com/en/jsp/main.jsp?resourceid=3219161

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PRNewswire -- May 26

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