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...next time you complain about the high price of gas, think of Mr. Ma. The owner of small logistics firm in Beijing, Ma was forced to shut it down temporarily earlier this week after he simply couldn't find enough diesel to fuel his company's 20 trucks. "Gas stations even serving diesel have been difficult to come across," says Ma, who didn't wish to give his first name. "I'm losing 100,000 renminbi...
Lorenzo Fertitta, UFC co-owner, who typically shies away from the public spotlight, was also present at the press conference, claiming that Couture "misstated the facts and that his statements were meant to hurt us." Fertitta added: "When we bought the UFC in 2001, no one cared. We were losing millions upon millions. But fighters have always gotten paid, we never bounced a check. Our goal was to pay a fighter a million dollars. Little did I know that would be the start of our problems...
...Widener Gate. Additional buses will run on Fridays and Sundays, with the exact number determined by customer demand and feedback. Vamoose, a Hasidic-owned company based in New York, is selling one-way tickets for $22 over the phone or at vamoosebus.com. In an interview yesterday, Vamoose co-owner Florence Bluzenstein pointed to guaranteed seating as an advantage over competitors. “We only book as many seats as we have available,” she said. “We have approximately 56 seats on every bus.” Competing bus companies Fung Wah, Lucky Star...
...million. Moreover, Britons largely considered its publicly-funded $1.22 billion price tag a waste of lottery and public money. That it took another three years to finally unload it - at a cost of around $60 million more for upkeep - only hardened negative attitudes toward the Dome. It's new owner is AEG, an American entertainment and sports conglomerate that also owns the Staples Center in Los Angeles and several sports teams, including the L.A. Kings hockey team...
...suddenly seem so vulnerable? One source of the Corporation's problems can be found back in Walford: 9 million saw Jane tackle Ian's crazed captor - far shy of EastEnders' record episode in 1986, when over 30 million watched nothing more dramatic than the marital breakdown of a pub owner and his barmaid wife...