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...Haul customers in the oil-producing regions of Texas and Louisiana are understandably upset. In those areas, the price of renting a truck or trailer from the do-it-yourself moving company seems to have shot out of reason. It costs $2,009, for example, to hire a 24-ft. U-Haul truck for a move from Midland, Texas, to Jacksonville. A Florida resident can rent the same truck in the opposite direction for only...
...careful: it might be America's new pest, the Asian tiger. First discovered in the U.S. nine months ago in Houston, the mosquito can transmit dangerous viral infections, including dengue fever and the La Crosse virus. The tiger has since been found in three states besides Texas: Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee...
...months," said Alfonso Robelo, one of the three top rebel political chiefs who lead the United Nicaraguan Opposition. "For the first time we can count on more permanent support." But the military aid will also put pressure on the contras to show some results in Nicaragua. Insisted Louisiana Democrat and Contra Backer Buddy Roemer: "There will be no blank checks for the contras...
...legislators, who are thus able to please powerful constituents. The present tax bill might never have cleared the Senate Finance Committee without rules benefiting a slew of projects in the New Orleans area, like the Riverwalk shopping-and-office development, that were added by ranking Democrat Russell Long of Louisiana...
Bradley says he is willing to cut deals when necessary but adds, "It's best to trade votes without anyone knowing about it." His model is veteran Louisiana Democrat Russell Long, a cagey operator whom Bradley studies the way coaches watch game films. Still, some of Bradley's colleagues find him aloof. "Reciprocity is not the way he operates," insists one Democratic Senator. "He's viewed as a lot of taking and not much giving. It's not that he's holier than thou, it's just that he has his own personal agenda." Says Bradley's media adviser, Michael...