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About 40 PBH volunteers helped collect,transport and store the donated books fromstudents on consignment. Donors priced their ownbooks at between 20 and 70 percent of Coop rates,then handed them over to the volunteers...
...TURKEY OF A TRANSPORT...
...Force's C-17 transport plane is a prime example of cost overruns and faulty supervision. Even after 10 years of development, the early models suffer from fuel leaks, faulty wings and an inability to cross the Atlantic unrefueled with a full load of cargo. The program deserves to be scrapped, but the Air Force urgently needs replacements for its aging cargo fleet. The original order for 120 jets (price each: $380 million) may have to be cut in half because of skyrocketing costs...
...tell you that "the engine of our growth for the next several years" is going to be intermodal traffic, which means the use of truck trailers and special containers that can be easily exchanged between rail and truck chassis. Santa Fe and the giant trucking concern of J.B. Hunt Transport, in Lowell, Arkansas, pioneered the modern strategic alliances between trains and trucks, which used to be mortal enemies in the marketplace. Increased rail efficiency, rising truck costs and as much as 100% driver turnover a year in trucking drove the two industries together. Santa Fe carries nearly 3,000 trailers...
...their tumultuous but potentially powerful nation will someday have the democratic government it deserves. They may have started down that road in earnest last week when the city of Lagos, a boisterous, sprawling metropolis of more than 6 million, stood empty and silent. Businesses were shuttered, railway and bus transport brought to a standstill, the normally congested streets deserted. Thousands of police and riot-control troops out on patrol had the silent city to themselves. Citizens were staying home to protest the ruling military's refusal to hand over power to the man elected President on June...