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More recently, regional managers from Terminix, an international pest-control operation with branches in 45 states, said that the Boston area now produces more than three times the bedbug infestations reported in the previous year...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Unwelcome Visitors’ Join Students In Bed | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

College campuses in Boston are particularly subject to risk factors because they are highly-frequented areas, says a spokesman for Terminix...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘Unwelcome Visitors’ Join Students In Bed | 9/25/2006 | See Source »

...problem is growing in both cities and the suburbs. According to the National Pest Management Association, bed bug calls nationwide jumped more than 63 percent between 2000 and 2004. Today, the infestations are "nearly an epidemic in Manhattan and other U.S. cities," says Robert Pineiro, a supervisor for Terminix in White Plains, New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming to a Bed Near You | 12/2/2005 | See Source »

ANTS Native ants are the fastest-growing household pests, report experts from Orkin and Terminix. Imported fire ants have spread well beyond what was predicted when the stinging insects were accidentally introduced into the southern U.S. decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crawling Your Way... | 6/30/2003 | See Source »

...over caribou. But no one thought his team would choose slaughterhouses over schoolchildren, even if only for a day. What connects these decisions is a preference for folks he knows: his oil-field buddies (mirrors of himself), corporate executives and captains of industry, from the Halliburton honcho to the Terminix franchisee. Some of them contributed mightily to his campaign; all are "dynamic entrepreneurs," as he likes to say, who have made America great--despite laboring under a raft of pesky government regulations. They have his gratitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arsenic And Bad Beef | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

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