Avondale employs about 53 people at the recycling plant, with about 20 more agency workers.

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Oppenheimer also upgraded ATHN, lifting the stock to Market Perform, while Avondale Partners initiated coverage at Overweight.

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In the suburb of Avondale, veteran journalist Mavis Moyo, 85 has lived through the worst and best of Zimbabwe.

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The growth in the market has also drawn in larger competitors, said Fred Lowrance, analyst at Avondale Partners LLC.

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Marler says it was the success of Avondale's program that gave him the confidence to try something similar at Signal.

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Avondale currently charges a gate price to customers to receive and treat municipal, commercial and industrial black-bag waste at the recycling facility.

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The car in Avondale was set alight at 07:00 GMT on Saturday.

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The LPD-17 San Antonio-class ship (the one made at Avondale) has no work left in the pipeline after the ones already in construction.

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Paul Madden, whose car in Avondale was one of those targeted, said it was used to take his 23-year-old son to education classes and work training.

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The decision follows a public inquiry in Edinburgh into the wheel-loss incident, which occurred as the HGV driver was heading from his home in Dunfermline to the Avondale landfill site off the M9.

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The decision to wind down the Avondale facility by 2013 is a difficult one for the already struggling Gulf Coast economy as it will affect about 5000 people currently working at the facility.

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Associated Press writers Walter Berry in Avondale, Ariz.

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On Tuesday, the defense contractor announced that it will be shuttering one of its seven shipyards, the Avondale facility in Louisiana, in an effort to reduce costs and consolidate its Gulf Coast shipbuilding operations in Mississippi.

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The native of Avondale Estates, Ga.

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