Word: renner
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Take Chris Renner, 26, who helped create Food Partnership Inc. outside Los Angeles. It troubled him that food banks were spending a fortune in transport fees to collect donations. With the help of the California Trucking Association and United Way, he worked out a method for trucks to transport food between donors and food banks when they were returning empty from a long haul. So far, the program has carried nearly 4 million lbs. of food and saved the food banks $55,000 in trucking fees...
...Lyons Award was first given in 1964 in honor of Louis M. Lyons, who served as Nieman Foundation curator for 25 years. Past recipients of the award include Zwelakhe Sisulu, a South African editor, Tom Renner, a reporter for Newsday who uncovered stories on organized crime, and Violeta Chamorro, publisher of the Nicaraguan opposition paper La Prensa...
MAFIA PRINCESS by Antoinette Giancana and Thomas C. Renner Morrow; 304 pages...
Still, as Antoinette has recounted to Co-Author Thomas Renner, growing up as a Mafia princess was scarcely an elevating experience. Her first taste of the savagery that pervaded Giancana's world came when she knocked over his pet objet, a kitschy female figurine clutching her wind-blown skirt. Giancana's response was to beat his young daughter with his belt...
Bankers believe it will also take further drops in interest rates before consumers start taking out more loans. Says Robert W. Renner, chairman of the Citizens State Bank in Hartford City (pop. 8,000), Ind.: "I really think we're going to have to get down to the 12% to 13% range before the typical consumer comes back to see us." The Citizens State Bank last week made only one auto loan at 17.5% interest. A year ago, it was making twelve to 14 such loans a week...