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• Pricey bike, but money well spent; WMI pays $800,100 for 'Tonight Show' motorcycle.(Waste Management Inc.)

  - 2005-02-14

  Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc. employees are used to being on the ground and helping clean up after disaster strikes. But when the Indian Ocean tsunami hit in December, there was no way they could roll out their trucks to...

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• WMI sponsorships boost diversity.(News)(Waste Management Inc)

  - 2005-01-03

  Byline: Jim Johnson Part of Waste Management Inc.'s growing involvement with NASCAR is aimed at promoting diversity in the sport. Waste Management is sponsoring driver Bill Lester as he drives in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series...

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• WMI offers Chicago site plan.(News)(Waste Management Inc.)

  - 2004-12-06

  Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management wants to reopen the CID landfill in southeast Chicago to municipal solid waste and is willing to give away more than half of the profits from the site in a $20 million deal in an effort to...

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• WMI unveils financial plans.(News)(Waste Management Inc)

  - 2004-11-08

  Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc. is increasing its dividend by a nickel per year - up to 80 cents per share - and plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on stock buybacks. ...

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• Wild storm blows through workers' lives at WMI office.(Special Report)

  - 2004-09-13

  Byline: Jim Johnson Melissa Doyle's prayers were answered, the Waste Management Inc. district manager figures. Hurricane Charley - just as she wished - spared the trucks at the company's district offices in Charlotte Harbor. ...

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• WMI realigns markets, makes exec changes.(News)(Waste Management Inc.)

  - 2004-08-02

  Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc. is tweaking its markets and making some executive changes. The nation's largest solid waste management company is realigning markets. Ohio, which previously operated as a joint market area with...

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• WMI saga concludes; 2 execs to pay $4.2 million to settle charges.(Waste Management Inc.)

  - 2003-10-27

  Byline: Jim Johnson Two men at the center of a financial scandal that rocked the nation's largest trash hauler, Waste Management Inc., four years ago will pay millions to settle insider-trading charges with the federal government. ...

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• WMI pumps up dividend payment.(News; Waste Management Inc.)

  - 2003-08-18

  Byline: Jim Johnson America's largest solid waste management firm is dramatically increasing its yearly dividend payment to shareholders. Waste Management Inc. has been paying stockholders 1 cent per share per year, but will hike that to...

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• Two recycling giants combine forces; WMI, Peltz create Recycle America Alliance unit.(Cover Story)(Waste Management Inc. )

  - 2003-01-20

  Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc. sees a far different world of recycling in the years ahead - one where there are fewer material recovery facilities that are far better utilized than today. The nation's largest...

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• 2003 could include more layoffs at WMI.(Cover Story)(Waste Management Inc.)

  - 2002-11-25

  Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc. is budgeting for a flat economy in the upcoming year and is not ruling out the possibility of more layoffs. The possibility of job cuts comes after the Houston-based solid ...

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