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...swelling middle class and booming car sales, the roads are filling up faster than they can be built. For now, Reliance plans to buy mostly from farmers located within a couple of hours of major cities to shorten transport times. The company will build up its own fleet of trucks, but will also outsource some of its transport needs. Eventually, trucks will be fitted with radio or satellite transmitters that will allow a central control room to track locations and cargo-a far cry from the bullock carts and rusty trucks that currently link producers and customers. Still, even...
...Finance Ministry office by an unidentified group of Iraqi insurgents on Tuesday is the most brazen such operation in Baghdad since the U.S. military's buildup, or "surge," strategy began earlier this year. Police sources told TIME that "dozens" of kidnappers, dressed in police uniforms, arrived in a large fleet of cars and snatched four Germans and their Iraqi translator. CNN, meanwhile, is reporting that the abducted Westerners are British...
...Just like the past few weekends, our main goal was to qualify for nationals,” senior skipper Clay Johnson said. “Winning would have been nice, but we wanted to sail conservatively, taking few risks, and be consistent at the top of the fleet.” Both boats did just that, finishing in the top three of their respective divisions. In A, Johnson and senior crew Kristen Lynch assumed sole responsibility of the Crimson’s boat, leading Harvard to a third-place finish with 93 points, behind Brown and Boston College...
...pretty close third,” Johnson said. “We’re pretty ecstatic to get third. We didn’t necessarily sail our best, but we pulled out moves when we had to.”The success came thanks to an experienced Harvard fleet consisting of three boats. Johnson and senior crew Kristen Lynch were sailing in the final Fowle trophy of their careers, while junior captain skipper Kyle Kovacs and junior crew Elyse Dolbec put forth perhaps the strongest performance of the weekend. Knowles and senior crew Emily Simon—a boat...
...Simon scored 76 points for the team in their seventh-place showing, while sophomore skipper Jon Garrity and senior crew Ashley Nathanson finished in fifth-place for Harvard.The host-Terriers, Yale, South Florida, Boston College and Bowdoin took the top five spots.THOMPSON TROPHYThe Crimson once again sent its top fleet to the US Coast Guard Academy on Saturday and Sunday, this time for the Thompson Trophy. Harvard raced 32 times over the two days, finishing fifth overall with 255 points, just four more than Connecticut College in fourth and seven more than Yale in third.For the Crimson...