Jim Young
Jim Young
James Norman "Dirty Thirty" Young is a former professional American football and Canadian football player. Young played running back and wide receiver for the NFL's Minnesota Vikings for two seasons, and the CFL's BC Lions for thirteen seasons. Young is a member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, the BC Sports Hall of Fame, and the Queen's University Football Hall of Fame. Young's #30 jersey is one of ten numbers retired by the BC...
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Everyone in baseball knows everybody else's business. People know we do business a little different.
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We are honored to have been named America's most admired railroad. The spotlight for this accomplishment shines directly on our 50,000 employees who are truly the heroes in our company's success. In light of unprecedented business demands, we are successfully maintaining focus to stay on track.
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This quarter was positive for us in many ways. We experienced record growth in our business, moved these volumes more efficiently and improved our bottom-line results. Most importantly, we provided better service to our customers.
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Union Pacific is operating more efficiently, allowing us to handle record volumes and recover more rapidly from challenges such as hurricanes, the Kansas washouts and severe winter storms.
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Union Pacific is committed to the development and use of new technologies to preserve the environment for future generations. Environmental protection is a primary management responsibility as well as the responsibility of every Union Pacific employee.
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There are other parts of the country that experience temperatures like we had in Chicago, ... But one doesn't see the kind of mortality like we had here.
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We are optimistic about the ongoing strength of the economy in 2006, but remain mindful of the challenges associated with moving record volume across our system.
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There wasn't demand to purchase seats in advance. It was not unusual to have 12,000 to 14,000 in walk-up sales on game night. We led the majors in walk-up sales.
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The replacements may not want to stick around given the uncertainty of Northwest's future.
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And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.
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A's Baseball remains one of the most affordable entertainment values in all of sports. The average ticket price in 2006 will be $25.48, which still ranks in the lower third in all of baseball. And the average ticket-price increase from 2005 to 2006 will be 7.24 percent, which is the second-lowest increase over the last six seasons and lower than the last two seasons.
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This is not about protecting scabs from harassment - existing work rules already do that.
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This continues to be about busting our union,
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Demand still seems to be pretty robust. I am a little concerned about interest rates and the high costs of diesel fuel.