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...boasts Matthew Rose, BNSF's chairman, president and CEO. They marvel, he says, at technological innovations like BNSF's intermodal transport system, which moves containers from faraway ports to inland rail yards, where cranes can quickly off-load them for trucks to deliver to retail warehouses. BNSF, which handles one-fourth of the nation's rail freight, posted double-digit increases in its intermodal business in 2003, with revenues up nearly 11% and total cars up 12.6%, to 4 million...
...Harvard recipients account for more than one-fourth of this year’s 31 recipients, taking the greatest share of awards in the four-year history of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship...
Rosen Sharma is sure about one thing. His nine-month-old company, Solidcore, a start-up that makes backup security systems for computers, could not survive without outsourcing. By lowering his development costs, the 18 engineers who work for him in India for as little as one-fourth the salary of their American counterparts allow him to spend money on 13 senior managers, engineers and marketing people in Silicon Valley. If he doesn't outsource, in fact, the venture capitalists who fund start-ups like his won't give him a nickel. Sharma's Indian-American team, tethered...
...investment there, and President Bush imposed further sanctions this summer. Many European companies have also pulled out, including Premier Oil, the French hotel chain Accor and, last month, British American Tobacco. Total and Unocal argue that their presence has a positive effect. Infant mortality in the pipeline vicinity is one-fourth the national average, they say, and such social indicators as school attendance and employment have gone up. Total itself is facing lawsuits in France and Belgium over its role in the project. It says everyone employed on the project was a paid, voluntary adult with a written contract...
...hardest the state?s wealthiest Republicans - who enthusiastically backed him during the campaign because he promised never to do such a thing. State GOP Chairman Marty Connors is beside himself. ?It?s too big, too fast, too soon,? he gripes. Riley?s plan would result in almost a one-fourth increase in the state?s $5.3 billion budget...