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...carded (Puritans!) and paying the $10 cover, we noticed two things: the attractive, brass-railed bar and the attractive, smiling bartender, who furnished us with an equally attractive beer. Onstage were a bunch of guys who looked like they were having fun: a bluegrass-rock band called Old School Freight Train. The band included a mandolin, fiddle, and banjo in addition to the regular stuff, and they were awesome; it was one of those performances that lasts more than an hour but feels like it’s over in ten minutes. It was grin-inducing and unlike anything we?...
...Jacobs' analysis, the tournaments were small time because they had the wrong sponsors. The fishing outfits were great, but they couldn't pay all the freight needed to raise purses or produce great television. So Jacobs supplanted them with corporations such as GM's Chevrolet division, M&M/Mars, 7-Up and Fujifilm, which wouldn't blink at, say, a $10 million sponsorship fee if it could move the sales needle. Then in 1997 he landed the whale: Wal-Mart. "We tend to think in increments, in small steps," Scott tells TIME. "Irwin thinks in big steps, in flights of steps...
With the U.S. economy growing, companies like Wal-Mart shipping freight from China and a $286 billion highway bill just through Congress, trucking is here for the long haul. Industry revenues will increase 32.4%, to $888.5 billion, according to economic research firm Global Insight, and the U.S. is projected to add 574,000 truck-driving jobs over the next decade. Yet the industry has reported a shortage of 20,000 long-haul drivers. "With the image of the truck driver barreling down a highway, shouting at you, there's a stigma attached to the job," says David Terkanian...
...House leadership aides was extremely skeptical of the idea. ?How do you stop a freight train?? But another top aide said it would be discussed, showing just how direly the fiscal situation is regarded in the Republican conference...
...pleaded my case as best I could,? DeFede says. ?I went from consoling this man, to finding he was dead. To them sneaking me in through the back entrance, the freight entrance, of the Herald to avoid the police out front. They are firing me and they're still cleaning up Art Teele's blood in the lobby.? Fiedler says his decision to fire DeFede was based solely on the taped telephone call. He denies that it had anything to do with criticism of DeFede from the expatriate Cuban community in Miami. The Cuban exile community had been angered...