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...past 16 years. New pipelines, including one that cuts through Panama, have stolen much of the oil trade, and air freight and sea-to-rail transport compete for canal business, particularly consumer goods that are moved in containers. Still, the canal remains competitive in the movement of bulk cargoes, such as wheat and coal. Last year traffic through the canal reached almost 156.5 million tons of cargo, the second highest load in canal history. The U.S., the canal's largest user, sends 13.7% of its international seabound trade through the canal. Japan, the second largest user, relies heavily...
Wright may have more trouble defending himself against charges relating to bulk sales of his nonbook Reflections of a Public Man (it consists mainly of speech excerpts slapped together by an aide). On the surface, at least, the sales look like a blatant attempt to slide around House limits on members' outside income; honorariums for speeches are restricted, but book royalties are not. In several cases Wright's staff members pointed out that the Speaker was near his limit on honorariums and suggested that organizations buy books instead of paying him directly. Wright refused to answer any questions about...
...lasting happiness to the Britons, and in 1985 they sold Howard Johnson's to the Marriott Corp. Marriott, which owns Bob's Big Boys, kept only about 400-odd company-owned Howard Johnson's restaurants, which magically began turning into Bob's Big Boy restaurants, and sold off the bulk of the empire to Prime Motor Inns...
Most of the property being acquired in the S & L bailout is concentrated in the Southwest, where the bulk of insolvent thrifts overextended themselves during the oil-boom days of the late 1970s and came to grief in the oil crash of the mid-1980s. The thrifts began repossessing property when borrowers could no longer meet payments, often because homeowners lost their jobs or business owners suffered from plunging sales as the energy-based economy declined. In many cases the loans should never have been made. Observes James Noteware, national director of real estate for the accounting firm of Laventhol...
...bulk of Armenians today live in the United States. An estimated 90,000 Armenians live in Massachusetts, with most residing in Watertown and Cambridge...