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...Aside from the questionable use of the word "artificial" when it comes to companies selling their own products, Levin has a point - corporate names like BP-Amoco, ChevronTexaco and ExxonMobil demonstrate well enough the industry's recent wave of consolidation. But as Levin targets the brief but headline-making pump-price spikes of spring 2000 and summer 2001 and calls for antitrust action against the industry, he forgets how the got on this merger kick in the first place: the rock-bottom oil prices of 1999. Disappearing profits induced Exxon and Mobil to join forces in search of a vertically...
...stays strong,” said freshman Schuyler Mann, who has caught each of Crockett’s starts this season. “He wasn’t really throwing as hard in the last inning [on Saturday], but when he needs to, he can pump himself up and throw just as hard...
...week after the three-year anniversary of the rampage at Columbine High School, a similar horror played out in Germany. A 19-year-old, recently expelled from Johann Gutenberg Gymnasium in Erfurt, returned to the scene of his humiliation armed with a pump-action shotgun and a handgun, killing 17 people, including 14 teachers, two students and a police officer. He then shot and killed himself...
...patients, involve some sort of subtle coercion like money or free medicine or fail to warn patients of the very real dangers they face. Some critics argue as well that there are simply too many trials, as pharmaceutical companies looking for a share of the blockbuster drug market pump out copycat medicines that no one really needs...
...CIRCULATION In the movie, the crooks pump gas into the room's vents. High-end rooms have a filtration system for biohazardous air and dummy air vents to fool malicious intruders...