Word: dump
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...bewildering questions in the auto industry is how high gas prices would have to climb before Americans dump their gas guzzlers for more fuel-efficient cars. The issue comes to a head every time prices spike at the pump, whether because of turmoil in the Middle East, a lack of refinery capacity or old-fashioned opportunism in anticipation of a surge in demand. That's the scene now, with oil futures hitting record levels and gas prices averaging nearly $2 per gal. nationwide just as the summer driving season kicks off. If you just spent $75 to fill up your...
It’s not as though we have greater problems in the library, such as ringing cell phones or loud disruptive students. No, no. Better deal with the food crisis. Just take a look at Lamont! It’s practically a dump, strewn with wrappers and littered with empty bottles...
...route between luxury hotel and garbage dump has traditionally been one-way. Yet this is set to change, with an innovative project in Cambodia granting street kids a chance to work in the upper echelons of the hospitality industry. Shinta Mani, tel: (855) 63 761 998, is a crisply designed, 18-room, $130-per-night boutique hotel, which opened last year in Siem Reap, 6 km from Angkor Wat. But it also doubles as a vocational training institute, and its first classes, for some 16 youngsters, began earlier this month. The students?some of whom previously survived by scavenging...
According to the resolution, which was authored by Allison I. Rogers ’04, who is also a student representative on CHL, Harvard spends $80 per ton to ship its trash to a dump in South Carolina, while transporting recycling to the plant located in Boston costs Harvard only...
...surprisingly, many companies are trying to dump more of the cost of health care on employees. But VitalSpring Technologies Inc. offers a different approach: paying greater attention to get-well strategies for workers, particularly those most likely to get seriously sick. VitalSpring, based in Mclean, Va., was founded in 1999 by Sreedhar Potarazu--an ophthalmologist, M.B.A. and former faculty member at Johns Hopkins University Hospital--with the idea of helping companies control costs by being more proactive in employee health care...