Word: dumps
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...renewable provision (plus Senator Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican, who penned his own letter) and sent that to the Democratic leaders. Without that measure, the group would be "hard-pressed" to support the overall legislation, said Anna Aurillo, legislative director for PIRG. Friends of the Earth, meanwhile, tried to dump a ton of coal in a Senate park last week, but when the Capitol Police prevented them, they blackened their faces and hands in protest instead. Greenpeace, LCV, Clean Air Watch and dozens of other environmental groups all have letter and e-mail campaigns in addition to the direct lobbying...
...from here to Mindwube I, the smoking mountains of garbage on the capital's eastern edge, where the hypermarkets throw out meat and vegetables that have passed their sell-by dates. Madeleine, a 60-year-old mother of 10, lives with several thousand others in the area around the dump. When the truck arrives, it's a ferocious feast. Hundreds of scavengers descend on the skip, elbowing their way into the trash and plunging their hands in deep. "The supermarkets are the best," says Madeleine. "It's in boxes, all arranged." Nor do the inhabitants of Mindwube just find food...
...candy-coated descriptions explain that this collection came into being because these statues are unwanted and have been dismantled from schools, colleges and municipal buildings across the island. The Chiang Kai-shek Statue Park, as it's known, may as well be called the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Dump...
...board was radical. "We were changing where the product was made, where it was stored and who it was sold to," Von Lehman notes. Among the changes: transfer manufacturing and storage from Mexico to lower-cost China, update marketing, reduce the number of styles and customers, and dump millions of outdated inventory. In addition, the team recommended consolidating company functions in Columbus by replacing the New York City sales office with a showroom and shuttering the San Antonio operations center. The plan also called for eliminating swaths of management, including 13 of 23 vice presidents. The CEO balked...
...sense, foreigners' buying companies is a good thing for a debtor nation like the U.S., because it's harder to dump those investments in a panic than it is to sell bonds. But there's a worrisome aspect to this trend, even beyond the usual xenophobic concerns about foreigners' acquiring our national treasures...