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Fla. jury awards $300 million in ex-smoker's suit - Yahoo! News

MIAMI – A South Florida jury on Thursday ordered Philip Morris USA to pay $300 million to a former smoker, agreeing that the tobacco company's negligence was the cause of her emphysema.

The award for Cindy Naugle, 61, is the largest to date among thousands of lawsuits filed in the state against tobacco companies.

"Cindy admitted her fault to the jury," her attorney, Robert W. Kelley, said in a statement. "But Philip Morris refused to accept any responsibility for her emphysema, even though she was an addicted customer for 25 years
 
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United Parcel Service Inc. plans to raise rates an average of 4.9% for packages shipping by ground and air, including packages sent to other countries from the U.S.

The world's largest package shipper said the increase for air express and international shipments is based on a 6.9% rise in the base rate and a 2% reduction in the air and international fuel surcharge.

The new rates take effect Jan. 4, when fuel surcharge tables for air express and ground services also will be adjusted.
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UPS to Raise Rates by 4.9% - WSJ.com
 
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Plain and simple. The companies can not keep hauling it for a loss. Some companies thought they could make a run at it but the strong will survive.
 
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truckchick1 said:
Plain and simple. The companies can not keep hauling it for a loss. Some companies thought they could make a run at it but the strong will survive.
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The answer is UPS. Thats why they paid 2.5 billion dollars to get out of the Master Freight Agreement last year. Now ABF and YRC are taking a huge hit financially on that. It is so bad that all of us have take an 18 month pension freeze. Now all of us have to give 15% of our wages back to YRC, just so they can survive. I kind wonder where that 2.5 billion is now?
 
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:TR10driving03:U P S by law has to stay a percentage above U S Post office rates, so much for free enterprise.:nutkick:
 
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6 billion dumb@ss, not 2.5 billion - and it wasn't to get out of the NMFA it was to get out of pension obligation.
 
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On Saturday, November 21, 2009, the U.S. Senate voted to approve the motion to proceed with debate on a health insurance reform bill - the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The bill will ensure that all Americans have access to quality, affordable health care and will create the transformation within the health care system necessary to contain costs. Unfortunately, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act currently includes a provision that would impose an excise tax on insurers for higher-cost health plans that is simply a huge middle-class tax hike. The excise tax would be shifted onto workers and potentially force steep reductions in benefits or exorbitant increases in costs...
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Your current plan would be taxed big time

Tell the Senate: Support Health Insurance Reform without Taxation of Benefits
 
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[size=+2]Corporate bigs to meet at White House[/size]

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Leaders from some of America's top corporations will gather Thursday at a jobs summit at the White House
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Confirmed attendees include Google CEO Eric Schmidt, FedEx CEO Frederick Smith, Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger and Boeing CEO James McNerney. The White House said there would be 130 attendees at the jobs forum..
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White House, Business Leaders Split on How to Create Jobs - WSJ.com
 
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Seattle police kill suspect in officer slayings - Yahoo! News

SEATTLE – The man suspected of gunning down four police officers in a suburban coffee shop was shot and killed by a lone patrolman investigating a stolen car early Tuesday. Four people were arrested for allegedly helping the suspect elude authorities during a massive two-day manhunt.

Maurice Clemmons was carrying a handgun he took from one of the dead officers when a Seattle policeman recognized him near a stolen car in a working-class south Seattle neighborhood about 2:45 a.m., Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel said.
 
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mustache said:
Seattle police kill suspect in officer slayings - Yahoo! News

SEATTLE – The man suspected of gunning down four police officers in a suburban coffee shop was shot and killed by a lone patrolman investigating a stolen car early Tuesday. Four people were arrested for allegedly helping the suspect elude authorities during a massive two-day manhunt.

Maurice Clemmons was carrying a handgun he took from one of the dead officers when a Seattle policeman recognized him near a stolen car in a working-class south Seattle neighborhood about 2:45 a.m., Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel said.
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This person would NEVER had been on the street but for one person Huckabee clemency record revisted after shootings - Yahoo! News
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee had a hand pardoning or commuting many more prisoners than his three immediate predecessors combined. Maurice Clemmons, the suspect in Sunday's slaying of four Seattle-area police officers, was among them.......

On Monday, Huckabee said he takes responsibility for making Clemmons eligible for parole in 2000, and called the case a failure of the justice systems in Arkansas and Washington. Huckabee cited the length of Clemmons' sentence — 108 years — and a state judge's recommendation that it be reduced as factors in his decision.

"If I could have known nine years ago that this guy was capable of something of this magnitude, obviously I would have never granted a commutation. It's sickening," Huckabee said on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor."
 
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Eric Holder, our Attorney General, the top law enforcer of the land took part in the pardon of the radical Puerto Rican gang that blew up police stations and buildings in NYC and Chicago as a favor to Clinton so Hillary would get the Puerto Rican vote when she ran for the Senate In NY
 
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thejoe said:
Eric Holder, our Attorney General, the top law enforcer of the land took part in the pardon of the radical Puerto Rican gang that blew up police stations and buildings in NYC and Chicago as a favor to Clinton so Hillary would get the Puerto Rican vote when she ran for the Senate In NY
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Link Joe, where's the LINK LINK LINK LINK !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Seattle police kill suspect in officer slayings - Yahoo! News

SEATTLE – The man suspected of gunning down four police officers in a suburban coffee shop was shot and killed by a lone patrolman investigating a stolen car early Tuesday. Four people were arrested for allegedly helping the suspect elude authorities during a massive two-day manhunt.

Maurice Clemmons was carrying a handgun he took from one of the dead officers when a Seattle policeman recognized him near a stolen car in a working-class south Seattle neighborhood about 2:45 a.m., Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel said.
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Was the person that gunned down the police officers a YRC employee?
 
Bizarre calf mutilations found on Colorado ranch

SAN LUIS, Colo. – A creepy string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado has a rancher and sheriff's officials mystified.

Four calves were found dead in a pasture just north of the New Mexico state line in recent weeks. The dead calves had their skins peeled back and organs cleared from the rib cage. One calf had its tongue removed.

But rancher Manuel Sanchez has found no signs of human attackers, such as footprints or ATV tracks. And there are no signs of an animal attack by a coyote or mountain lion. Usually predators leave pools of blood or drag marks from carrying away the livestock.

Two officers from the Costilla County Sheriff's Office have investigated the mutilations but say they don't know what's killing the calves.

"There's nothing really to go by," said Sanchez, who's ranched for nearly 50 years. "I can't figure it out."



ANNIEO please tell me you you are still in Wisconsin NEVER GO TO COLORADO AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!! :smilie_132:
 
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R-14Driver said:
SAN LUIS, Colo. – A creepy string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado has a rancher and sheriff's officials mystified.

Four calves were found dead in a pasture just north of the New Mexico state line in recent weeks. The dead calves had their skins peeled back and organs cleared from the rib cage. One calf had its tongue removed.

But rancher Manuel Sanchez has found no signs of human attackers, such as footprints or ATV tracks. And there are no signs of an animal attack by a coyote or mountain lion. Usually predators leave pools of blood or drag marks from carrying away the livestock.

Two officers from the Costilla County Sheriff's Office have investigated the mutilations but say they don't know what's killing the calves.

"There's nothing really to go by," said Sanchez, who's ranched for nearly 50 years. "I can't figure it out."



ANNIEO please tell me you you are still in Wisconsin NEVER GO TO COLORADO AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!!! :smilie_132:
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Sounds like another X-File.
 
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