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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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• Team e-waste; WMI unit to hold events in 7 cities.(News)(Waste Management Inc,)(2004 Vision for America award)

  - 2004-10-11

  Byline: Joe Truini Byline: Joe Truini

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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 realigns its execs.(Waste Management Inc.)

  - 2004-03-15

  Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc.'s new CEO doesn't see a change at the top of the nation's largest trash company making much of a difference to the outside world. David P. Steiner, who had been...

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• Corporate giants like WMI decentralize power.(News)(Waste Management Inc.)

  - 2004-03-15

  Byline: Jim Johnson Waste Management Inc. is following a corporate trend of distributing power at the top of the company. David P. Steiner is succeeding A. Maurice Myers as CEO of the trash giant, but he...

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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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