Hints and tips:
...Instead, Riswold told me his cancer had been deemed terminal in September and that he was more interested in talking about art....
...He works at a warehouse to support his standup career, and “when you’re in a warehouse or digging a ditch with guys, we’re all making fun of each other all day. It’s just what you do....
...Foley’s idea looks obvious in retrospect: beam classes straight into homes via a slick bike equipped with a giant flat screen that resembles a Bloomberg terminal....
...The size of the queue of vessels lined up outside the terminals has become a barometer of worldwide supply chain convulsions....
...“It is up to the terminal operators to actually open up those hours and book the cargo movements in the off hours, so labour has pledged that they will be there....
...The potential for a squeeze in corporate profitability is starting to loom larger for the investors and analysts who track USA Inc. It’s not hard to see why....
...In Australia, dozens of wharf workers at a DP World terminal at Melbourne port were stood down after refusing to unload a container vessel that had previously docked in Shanghai and Taiwan....
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...Smaller operators lobbied for it to be curtailed and price discrimination was banned by the 1936 Robinson-Patman Act to stamp out discounting....
...Square, whose sleek white terminals sit on counters in shops across the country, has originated about $1.5bn of loans since the public launch of Square Capital, its lending arm, three years ago....
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...Protective Life Insurance Company has an arrangement with Costco, which runs warehouse-style discount stores. In contrast to other parts of the world, banks play only a very small role....
...It said the company did not inform internet users that it sets a cookie on their terminal when they visit a Facebook public page....
...Terminal warehouses are jammed to the rafters and there is scant available space to store additional shipping containers — known as twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) — when ships drop anchor....
...Productivity problem Jon Slangerup, chief executive of the Port of Long Beach, the public sector body that owns the port land, says the slowdown by the International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union — which...
...The atmosphere surrounding the contract negotiations appears to have soured considerably after the International Longshore and Warehouse Union demanded the right to dismiss arbitrators who mediate in contract...
...Inspecting the condition of the Bacton gas terminal on the east coast of England used to be a hazardous, lengthy and expensive job for Royal Dutch Shell....
...Canadian National Railway (CN) took the action amid concerns that talks between US port employers and the International Longshore and Warehouse Union over a new contract might end in a strike or lockout....
...Sir Charles Dunstone, the billionaire founder of Carphone Warehouse, was one of the backers of Boxpark in Shoreditch. But as big financial backers have started eyeing the category, so have big brands....
...The battle has moved from the high street and the web to include the warehouse....
...Copersucar was also dealt a blow last October when a fire destroyed warehouses and a terminal at the Brazilian port of Santos. “The link-up makes sense....
...Qiwi operates payment terminals that act as reverse ATMs into which Russians feed wads of roubles when they pay for everything from household bills to online orders....
...“I couldn’t understand why they didn’t replace it properly,” says Sir Charles Dunstone, chairman and founder of Carphone Warehouse....
...That is the kind of work usually done by well-educated junior analysts, who pull data from terminals, fill in spreadsheets and crunch numbers....
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