| Thrifty Car Sales Opens Eight Dealerships in Six States
TULSA, Okla., Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thrifty Car Sales, a subsidiary of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc. (NYSE: DTG) , is turning up the heat on expansions, recently adding eight locations to its national network of franchised used car dealerships. New dealerships are opening in markets that include Baxley, Ga.; Louisville, Ky.; Albuquerque, N.M.; Bixby and Pryor, Okla.; East Providence, R.I.; and Spokane, Wash. In Baxley, Ga., dealer Keven Carter opened a Thrifty Car Sales dealership at 755 W. Parker St. Carter has been in the automotive business for more than 10 years, most recently as Sales Manager at Woody Folsom Chevrolet. Steve Sternberg, a Thrifty Car Rental and Truck Rental franchisee for more than 32 years, has opened a dealership at 6507 Preston Highway in Louisville, Ky.
Labor News Roundup
Eleven of the workers arrested for taking part in the May 1st event last year in Sanandaj, Iran, were sentenced to 91 days in prison and 10 strikes of the lash. Following widespread protests against these sentences by the workers concerned and the National Union of Dismissed and Unemployed Workers, the Appeal Court changed the prison sentences to monetary fines, but upheld the sentence of 10 lashes. So far, the lashing and fine sentences have been carried out in the case of three workers by the names of Seddigh Amjadi, Habibollah Kalekaani and Faares Gaviliaan. The only crime of these workers is having participated in the May Day ceremony in Sanandaj." (Infoshop News, 02/28/08) Iran: Labour activists face lashes and fines: The International Alliance in Support of Workers in Iran (IASWI) writes: "The Committee in Defense of Mahmoud Salehi and the Union of Dismissed and Unemployed Workers report that the appeal court in the city of Sanandaj has sentenced 11 workers who had participated in a May Day 2007 event to 10 lashes and 200,000 toman each as a financial penalty.
REFILE-DEALTALK-Trade buyers line up for Dairy Farmers
(Refiles to fix typo in headline) (For more Reuters columns on deals, click [DEALTALK/]) By Victoria Thieberger MELBOURNE, March 7 (Reuters) - Australian milk and cheese producer Dairy Farmers, which put itself up for sale last month, could run into competition concerns because some widely touted trade buyers have overlapping dairy interests. Dairy Farmers says it has had substantial interest in a deal that could be worth up to A$1.0 billion ($930 million). Top Japanese brewer Kirin Holdings' (2503.T: Quote, Profile, Research) Australian dairy and juice producer National Foods is interested in bidding, a source told Reuters this week. Other potential buyers include New Zealand unlisted dairy giant Fonterra, Italy's Parmalat (PLT.MI: Quote, Profile, Research), Australian food group Goodman Fielder (GFF.AX: Quote, Profile, Research) and Singapore's Olam International (OLAM.SI: Quote, Profile, Research).
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Consumer groups say credit freezing is among the most effective ways to prevent new account fraud and is best-suited for people who have little need to apply for new credit or who have already paid off their mortgages, car loans and credit cards. In recent months, the three major credit bureaus -- Experian Group Ltd., TransUnion LLC and Equifax Inc. -- have announced that they will offer credit freezes nationwide. The bureaus' action comes after 39 states and the District of Columbia enacted laws in recent years allowing consumers to freeze their credit, though some states limit the option only to identity-theft victims. To be sure, freezing your credit can be cumbersome. You generally have to write a letter to each of the credit bureaus and pay a fee, though freezes are typically free for people who provide a police report confirming they were victims of identity theft.
Rusty remake fails to fire
Bale plays Dan Evans, an impoverished rancher who volunteers to join a posse of mercenaries and bounty hunters escorting a captured bandit, desperado Ben Wade, to justice. Crowe plays the bad guy, and those who prefer him in more upright, law-abiding roles may want to stick with American Gangster. The original 3:10 to Yuma appeared in 1957, directed by Delmer Daves, who was something of a western specialist. And whatever one thinks of the '50s, they were probably the greatest decade for Hollywood westerns. The mood of the times -- the Cold War, fear of communism, McCarthyist witch-hunts, not to mention a hot war in Korea -- seemed suited to the simplistic moral conflicts of the classic western formula. Daves made Broken Arrow for Fox in 1950, with James Stewart and Jeff Chandler, and Jubal, a western version of Othello, with Glenn Ford, in 1956.
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