Alan Miller
Alan Miller
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Step back and review your practices to make sure all your inputs are adding value and paying their way. In particular, you've got to give the high-cost items some attention. Where you get the most savings on a percentage basis may be in finding even a small reduction on a very expensive item, like fertilizer.
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We looked at Gov. Bush's appointments to the University of Texas Board of Regents, which is a particularly coveted post. It's valued because the university produces many of the state's leaders, the position is prestigious and high profile -- and it doesn't hurt that it comes with tickets to the 50-yard line of football games, which is no small consideration in football crazy Texas,
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Gov. Bush says his approach to this issue is working. Environmentalists say that he has been captive to financial backers at the expense of the citizens of Texas.
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How to get them back and forth must be worked out, probably with the help of VIA,
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The fact that much of our supply of nitrogen fertilizers is imported should somewhat buffer the direct impact of Katrina's damage to natural-gas production capacity, but in the short run, nitrogen prices could increase,
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Our biggest concern is to give them help and to give them a home. We'll be there as long as needed,
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Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.
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Most of the jobs are entry-level: tellers, assemblers and retail sales,
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We have strengthened and enhanced our traditional relationships and presence at Huey P. Long Medical Center, and the Alexandria VA hospital.
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We don't have clear evidence that what they are pulling out is what they put out on the roadway.
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The jobs being offered for evacuees are not taking anything away from our own residents,
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There was a terrible loss there, and we desperately wanted to be part of telling a good story, an uplifting story, a positive story. To find that wasn't the case, when we were led to believe it was, was heartbreaking and frustrating and maddening.
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This is a situation none of us have faced before, ... How many people who will stay here is hard to tell at this point.
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It's a fairly quick turnaround time. It's working very smoothly.