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		<title><![CDATA[Waste Connections Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Conference Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionThank you, Sir. [Operator Instructions]. You first question comes from the line of Scott Levine with Waste Connections [ph]. Please proceed. Ronald J. Mittelstaedt - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Welcome to the company. Worthing F. Jackman - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Welcome to the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:07:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How To Make A Resume Today]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=394395]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[With this increasingly competitive market, making your resume stand out is more important than ever. When creating your resume be sure you use action words to highlight your responsibilities on other jobs. Words like "Delegate", "Persuade", "Organize", and "Execute" will give items listed on your resume more impact. Use specific...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Theory And Empirical Work On Imperfectly Competitive Markets]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=317307]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper reviews developments in the empirical analysis of imperfectly competitive markets highlighting issues which still get in the way of analyzing certain questions and/or particular markets. Some of the problematic issues are econometric. The need for a deeper understanding of the properties of estimators based on moment inequalities and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Delegating Pricing Decisions in Competitive Markets With Symmetric and Asymmetric Information]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=242764]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper examines the issue of price delegation versus centralized pricing in the context of a competitive market. Consistent with the past theoretical literature on price delegation, the contracting framework of agency theory is used. The firm designs and offers an optimal contract that will motivate the salesperson to work...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bidding for energy next for state, firm says.(small Business Zone)(Connecticut Light & Power Co.)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Connecticut Light & Power Co. expected to increase  electricity costs next year, one company is gearing up to help large  power consumers more affordable rates. In 2001, Cliff Sirlin, a  corporate attorney, and his partner, Andrew Appelbaum, sa  With Connecticut Light & Power Co. expected...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[GAO: overbuilds cut rates 15%-41%: report renews focus on competitive markets, though cable says sample is too small.(Policy)(General Accounting Office)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The General Accounting Office has completed a seven-month audit of  six markets with competitive wireline telecommunications providers,  concluding that consumer fees are generally lower in  "overbuilt" markets than elsewhere.       The repo    The General Accounting Office has completed a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2004 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Deregulating Electric Utilities: A Market-Process Approach]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=288019]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The basic assumptions on which public utility regulation have been built are increasingly challenged. Longstanding policy prescriptions no longer have unwavering support from academicians, politicians, or executives in the regulated industries. There appears to be a widespread recognition that, due to exhaustion of scale economies, the generation sector of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Product Innovation And Imperfect Competition In The Italian Fruit-Drink Industry]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this paper, the case of the Italian fruit-drink industry is presented to discuss the strategic issues of product-innovation in imperfectly competitive markets. In particular, three main topics are addressed: the incentives to the adoption of innovation-based strategies, R&D investments in imperfectly competitive markets and the role of vertical coordination....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[From Public Monopsony to Competitive Market: More Efficiency but Higher Prices]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=58889]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper examines the consequences of creating a fully competitive market in a sector previously dominated by a cost-minimising public firm. Workers in the economy are heterogeneous in their motivation to work in the sector. In line with empirical findings, our model implies that firms in the competitive market provide...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[State Farm Cuts Calif. Auto Rates By $183M.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Farm has announced a $183 million rate cut-the latest in a  series of reductions for California's largest purveyor of auto  insurance that the company says reflects an increasingly competitive  market.    The rate cut, approved by Insurance Commis  State Farm has announced a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 1998 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FCC faces thorny questions about rate re-regulation. (Industry Overview)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4895/is_199211/ai_n18000397]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[When Cable Alabama Inc. began to overbuild Comcast Corp.'s  Huntsville, Ala. system in 1986, the company triggered a furious price  war that finally drove basic rates down as low as $5 a month.     But when Comcast could neither starve Cable Alabama out  When...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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