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...expects Archer-Daniels- Midland to change its advertising slogan from "Supermarket to the World" to "Price Fixer to the World." But that sobriquet would fit in the wake of the agribusiness giant's $100 million plea bargain last week with the Justice Department...
...redress this giveaway by passing the Tongass Timber Reform Act, which forced KPC to pay market prices. KPC later sued for breach of contract and threatened to close the Tongass pulp operation if Congress did not extend the contract for 15 years beyond its 2004 expiration date and restore bargain-basement timber prices. With Alaska's delegation occupying key positions on congressional committees, it looked as though KPC would get its way, and Murkowski would protect the state's jobs. Said he: "If the pulp operation goes, all logging in southeast Alaska will collapse as well...
...drive-by shooting in front of a gang-infested housing project leaves an elderly white woman dead. The police wonder what she was doing on these mean streets at the break of dawn. Gang leader Ordell Trent, a.k.a. Hardcore, whom witnesses place at the scene, accepts a plea bargain to tell what he knows. The woman, he explains, was the mother of his probation officer, Nile Eddgar, and an unintended victim; the gang had actually been paid, by Nile, to kill someone else--Nile's father Loyell Eddgar, an influential state senator...
Kohler's third goal, off a rebound from his own deflected penalty kick, sealed the bargain...
...signs were up all over campus. The Crimson seemed to have invested a lot of time figuring out how to sell more newspapers. The prices were a bargain for the big national dailies (half of what the average American pays) and, heck, there were "4 easy ways to subscribe." The Crimson even worked out a handy joint venture with The Coop, whereby students could order their papers at the checkout counter. "Geez, as long as I'm spending $500 on books this semester, why not spend another $45 and get The Boston Globe," many a victim of clever marketing thought...