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...www.kaasmuseum.nl), a local rings a bell to open trading. Before bargaining begins, the buyer sniffs the cheese, bashes it with his hand to ensure the holes are the right size, and plunges a borer into it to taste the merchandise. If he decides to bid, he shouts out a price, which he accompanies with a hand clap; a stern clap at the end of the bidding seals the deal. Cheese porters, above, who have been hauling 160-kg barrows of sold cheese into the weigh house since the market began, are an equally big attraction. The men still belong...
...prices even as it has squeezed in more seats to offset higher fuel costs. Bill Zollars, CEO of YellowRoadway, says the trucker is enjoying "the most robust pricing in my eight years" at the firm. Companies less sensitive to oil are raising prices too. Allied Waste just won a bid to dispose of Boston's trash for $82 a ton, up 6.5% from a contract last summer. Another small but significant bellwether: Campbell's, which hasn't raised premium-soup prices in five years, just went for a 5% hike. On Wall Street, meanwhile, money managers like Doug Sheres...
...month E.U. presidency in July, so optimists are hoping that current president, Luxembourg, can craft a workable compromise before then. Don't hold your breath. Cross-Border Bank Raid Italian banks are suddenly under assault from European rivals. ABN Amro of the Netherlands is expected to announce a bid for Banca Antoniana Popolare Veneta, Italy's ninth-largest bank, as early as this week. That follows this month's €6.5 billion bid by Spain's Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria for the 85% of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro it doesn't already own. The moves amount to an earthquake...
...Hampshire forward Daniel Winnik’s redirection with 4:54 left to play in overtime Saturday evening at the Mullins Center snapped a 2-2 tie and pushed the Wildcats past Harvard and into the second round of the NCAA tournament, denying the Crimson’s bid to move beyond the regional semifinals for the first time since...
...Crimson has good reason to be. In addition to its in-season success against quality opponents and its familiarity with the tournament—Harvard is one of just five programs to receive a bid each of the past four seasons, along with UNH, Maine, Minnesota, and Michigan—its defense and goaltending are stronger now than at any point in each of the last three seasons, despite hiccups in the ECAC tournament last weekend...