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...Two elephant skeletons stand guard over hundreds of taxidermied heads: elks, bison, cows, zebras, a trio of black, brown and polar bears....
...Two days later, agents seized $1.2mn from the trunk of their Volkswagen Jetta. By then, “Maria” had laundered more than $17mn for the Uruguayans, while helping the government seize around $12mn....
...The lack of semiconductors has affected carmakers across the world with Volkswagen, Nissan and General Motors all tapering production....
...The ranch itself is a simple wooden structure, surrounded (as so many western ranch houses are) by a grove of cottonwood trees, blazing yellow in the fall....
...Over the four days, we saw elk, squirrels, the varied thrush — with a distinctive black band across its orange chest — chickadees, steller’s jays, woodpeckers and big, slimy yellow banana slugs....
...As wolf numbers increased, those of elk declined, allowing aspen, willow and cottonwood trees to recover; aquatic ecosystems in turn improved, and with them came the reappearance of beavers, which had become...
...Paul Doran and Mark Ervine pull up in a red Volkswagen Polo hatchback and unload a ladder, paint and brushes....
...The big mammals — elk, black bears, mountain lions and wolves — are much harder to spot, as they range far from the river, across the 8,000ft mountains....
...A frugal manager, he led by example, driving to work in a second-hand Volkswagen....
...Along with promoting worker safety, the DoJ’s environmental crimes section is helping lead the criminal probe of Volkswagen’s diesel emissions cheating and targeting wildlife trafficking....
...., Zurich, Switzerland, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Chicago and Elk Grove, Illinois, in the U.S....
...Richard Davis Elk Grove, CA, US Col, US Air Force (ret); former US air attaché to New Delhi, India...
...Richard Davis Elk Grove, CA, US (Colonel, US Air Force, Retired)...
...gary.silverman@ft.com ——————————————- Letter in response to this article: Lessons from an icy tale based on reality not fiction / From Richard Davis, Elk Grove, CA, US, (Colonel, US Air Force, Retired...
...The maker of iPhones and Mac computers said it was now using only renewable energy for its data centres and offices in Austin, Elk Grove, Cork, Munich and the Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino, where the...
...In 1961 Turner launched a programme known as the Hamburger University, based on that manual, in the basement of a restaurant in Elk Grove Village, Illinois....
...Adorning the walls are various assorted dead animals – bear skins, elk antlers, deer heads....
...Its US portfolio reveals a collection of mid-sized companies based in towns with folksy names such as Middleton, Wisconsin; Maple Grove, Minnesota and Elk Grove Village, Illinois....
...In Elk Grove, a suburb of Sacramento in northern California, a quarter of a mile separates the local branch of Longs Drug stores from a rival branch of Walgreens, the national drugstore chain....
...Somewhere hot like my house in Deia, in Majorca, where I can walk through olive groves and jump into the sea.”...
...The Elk Grove Village, Illinois-based company said it is on track to achieve $5 billion in annual cost savings by 2005. It is targeting more than $1 billion in additional annual savings....
...This is now fizzling out - but Volkswagen, the market leader, still earned $1.2bn in China in 2003....
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