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Candidates must also contend with an expanding district, which extends to Easton to the southwest, Braintree to the southeast, Brockton, the old shoe manufacturing town, and the textile mills of Taunton...
That profile, involving four components--young, Hispanic, male, confused--became famous in the 1980s because of the DEA's Operation Pipeline. Pipeline was essentially a series of training seminars the DEA built around the Illinois strategy of targeting couriers. Local police around the nation--particularly in the Southwest and along the East Coast--were taught to profile these couriers. In 1999, Donnie Marshall, then No. 2 at the DEA, proudly told Congress that Operation Pipeline had led to seizures of 116,188 kg of cocaine, 748 kg of crack and 872,777 kg of marijuana, and that half a billion...
...where there's water, there's fire, at least when you live in the thirsty Southwest. Loder's 100 million-gal., 275-acre-ft. lake slurps its water from a Colorado River aqueduct; Loder pays about $15 per acre-ft. But the lake taps the canal that supplies farmers in the nearby Imperial Valley as well as the reservoirs of Los Angeles...
Most people who shop online still buy off-line--Web sales are just 5% of the $217 billion domestic-travel market--but now sites are getting enough paying customers to turn a profit. Southwest Airlines sells more than a third of its tickets on southwest.com and rewards Web shoppers with double miles. With airlines beginning to draw customers to their own sites, online agents like Expedia are selling more vacation packages and cruises with fat profit margins of 15% to 20%--a far cry from the $10 commissions that airlines...
...Southwest has sued Orbitz for allegedly publishing inaccurate fare and flight data that make the nation's most successful discount airline look expensive and inconvenient. Katz denies the charges. "Orbitz should not exist at all," says Debby Ackerman, general counsel for Southwest...