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...textbooks as well as ones that are tailor-made for different colleges - tactics Koch and other critics say is designed to suppress a large-scale market for used textbooks - many undergraduates are searching e-commerce and social-networking sites like Facebook for schoolmates who may be looking to sell the books they just finished using. And some try to save money by muddling through without any textbooks. For these cash-strapped students, says Nicole Allen, a consumer advocate at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Flat World's launch is a godsend: "It's a great sign that the market...
...Sugar in the name of saving the Florida Everglades may have been greeted with environmentalist hallelujahs around the nation, but for Clewiston it sounded a death knell. Clewiston, population 7,300, is a company town, and its primary employer is to shut down its operations under the plan to sell U.S. Sugar's 187,000 acres to the state. The locals are angry and exasperated that this still-unplanned mammoth act of environmental engineering will come at the expense of their town's livelihood...
...ignored no longer: she appeared on ABC's Nightline opposite FAA administrator David Hinson, who insisted that ValuJet was "safe to fly. I would fly it." Flatly contradicting him and alluding to the FAA's mission to promote air travel, Schiavo declared, "It's not my job to sell tickets on ValuJet." She dramatically disclosed to a national audience the FAA's own damning statistics: ValuJet's safety record was 14 times as poor as that of other discount carriers, even though the agency claimed that all airlines were equally safe. "I would not fly ValuJet," she said...
...Toyota, which sank nearly $2 billion in the Tundra project, has the capacity to build 400,000 pickup trucks but will probably sell only 150,000. "The vehicles have not done as well as they expected," said Alan Baum, an analyst with The Planning Edge in Birmingham. But trucks now sit on dealer lots for 64 days before they sell. "That's almost unheard of for Toyota," said Tom Libby, an analyst with J.D. Power & Associates. "They could have cut the price but they decided not to," he added...
...parents stick out like sore thumbs, but they’re quick learners. When we walk the crowded streets, people run after us trying to sell overpriced trinkets and “real” Coach handbags that they show you only on paper. (“Please friend, come to the backroom to see!") MacDuff, for all his vices, rightfully told us to beware of the “hockers” the first day. (I thought he said “hookers...