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...Higher used-car prices have squeezed profits for Kyle Weisner, whose family has owned the Victory Auto Wreckers junkyard and towing business in suburban Chicago for more than 50 years....
...Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was moved to reflect on the monarchy’s power to enhance the spiritual life of the nation....
...Marine engineer James Fisher & Sons is leading the FTSE 250 fallers after middling interim results trigger smallish forecast downgrades....
...Architectural-salvage and fireplace specialists are troves for everything from clean-fronted Queen Annes to carved Italian Renaissance marbles....
...She and her husband, Will Fisher, “scour the planet” for 17th- to 19th-century examples, as well as antique lighting and furniture....
...Nick Sloane, of US marine salvage firm Resolve Marine, has suggested towing an iceberg across the 1,000 nautical miles of ocean separating Cape Town from the edge of Antarctica....
...Johan, the elder brother, is head of APM Terminals’ port in Aarhus, Denmark’s largest, while Robert was chief executive of Svitzer, Maersk’s towing and salvage company, until last month....
...Costa Crociere, a unit of Carnival Corp, the world’s biggest cruise operator, has estimated the cost of the salvage operation, including the breaking up of the vessel, the towing and the damages on the island...
...The next stage of the operation, expected to take months, is to secure the ship before floating it and towing it away to the mainland port of Piombino for scrappage....
...It has managed to attach an emergency towing system and is waiting for more specialised equipment....
...Both proposals involve floating the wreck and towing it away, rather than cutting it up where it rests, half-submerged, in a marine sanctuary off the island of Giglio....
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