28 Aug 2008 at 12:39pm EL CAIRO, Costa Rica The raucous honking of a cistern truck carrying potable water rouses residents from their homes here each morning, clanging plastic bottles and tin pots in hand. ''When will it stop,'' says 64-year-old Rufina Najera, lugging a ...
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28 Aug 2008 at 12:10pm JACKSONVILLE, Ala. -- It didn't take Ryan Perrilloux very long to figure out whether his tarnished reputation followed him nearly 500 miles from LSU to Jacksonville State. Perrilloux, who was kicked off LSU's football team on May 2 following a series ...
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28 Aug 2008 at 11:20am AUSTRALIA'S five main ports are still improving their productivity despite more ship and truck traffic handling an increase in trade, new official figures show. On one measure, stevedoring productivity is at its highest level ever, but truck ...
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28 Aug 2008 at 10:37am It's a sign of how tough times are for the world's automakers when even Toyota ( TM ), the world's most profitable automaker and soon to be the biggest, has to slash sales forecasts. In Tokyo on Aug. 28, Toyota President Katsuaki Watanabe said the ...
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28 Aug 2008 at 9:33am ST. JOSEPH - The South West Gleaners Food Bank (SWGFB) in St. Joseph, one of seven food banks in the Second Harvest Gleaners Food Bank of West Michigan, Inc. network, has a new advantage in its ongoing mission to end hunger in Southwest Michigan. The ...
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28 Aug 2008 at 8:57am Randy Moss and David Dollar don't have a set time to connect on the phone, but they have been hooking up often lately. Usually on Tuesdays, when Moss is off from his day job as wide receiver with the New England Patriots, and frequently in the ...
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27 Aug 2008 at 2:17am STOCKHOLM, Aug 27 (Reuters) - World number two truck maker Volvo said on Wednesday deliveries of its trucks rose 2 percent year-on-year in July as strength in Asia offset weakness on both sides of the Atlantic. The group, which sells ...
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