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...Marathon gas-station owner in Wixom, Mich., keeps hearing stories of crazed drivers smashing the glass on other stations' pumps. Steve Glazer says customers at his Flushing, N.Y., Mobil station are so angry he is going to wear a helmet to work. Says Glazer, who has watched his profit margins erode to nothing: "I'd like to know who's making all the money...
Each team submitted their own ideas for starting original profit or non-profit business organizations in the contest, which was limited to undergraduates at Harvard...
...Kent Scheidegger, Legal Director for the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a Sacramento- based non-profit organization supporting "the rights of victims of crime and the law-abiding public." While Scheidegger says the organization supports the death penalty on a case by case basis, CJLF "unquestionably" supports Timothy McVeigh?s death sentence...
...with our lives for a couple of years? Yes, of course it would. But before you go expecting something as exotic as rational behavior from the postal service, you have to remember we?re talking about a massive government bureaucracy, in which estimates of profit margins can take months, even years, to travel up the chain of command. And when information finally reaches the top of that chain, it is often met by befuddled managers. Take, for example, Postal Board Chairman Robert F. Rider. When he announced the rate increases Tuesday, Rider said they were necessary "to assure the financial...
...planes pass overhead. The solution to squalid air travel that experts propose is analogous to the fix (turn up the volume) when loud planes interrupt your television watching. All will be well if you build more runways, more airports, if you schedule more flights, and fling more profit-making, noise-making metal into...