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...more seats to offset higher fuel costs. Bill Zollars, CEO of YellowRoadway, says the trucker is enjoying "the most robust pricing in my eight years" at the firm. Companies less sensitive to oil are raising prices too. Allied Waste just won a bid to dispose of Boston's trash for $82 a ton, up 6.5% from a contract last summer. Another small but significant bellwether: Campbell's, which hasn't raised premium-soup prices in five years, just went for a 5% hike. On Wall Street, meanwhile, money managers like Doug Sheres at Rice Hall James are moving into...
Less than 10 miles from the Mexican border, a vacant lot in Sierra Vista, Ariz., looks like a trash dump. Between the chaparral and scrub oaks are backpacks, sweatshirts, jeans, sneakers, used toilet paper and water bottles filled with urine. Chris Simcox, a small-town newspaper owner, flips through a book he picked out of the refuse titled Aprenda Ingles sin Maestro (Learn English Without a Teacher), shakes his head and says, "Welcome to the invasion...
AWARDED. HA JIN, 49, Chinese-American novelist; the PEN/Faulkner fiction prize, given to the best novel or short story by an American author, for War Trash, the tale of a Chinese soldier captured by Americans during the Korean War; in Washington, D.C. Ha Jin previously won the award for his 2000 novel Waiting, and becomes only the third writer after Philip Roth and John Edgar Wideman to win the prize twice in its 25-year history...
Even with extra time spent researching, thesis writers often have to modify or trash large portions of their projects in the face of new information or advisor disapproval...
...Union St. resident reported that he was assaulted by two unkown black males after an argument over suspects throwing trash on the ground. One of the males raised a bat to the suspect as if to hit him. The suspects then fled...