Improved margins, which reached 13.5% from 10.2% a year earlier, should be encouraging to investors, as UPS increased package volume and revenue per piece.

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Some writers were paid on a per-piece basis, but many others were on monthly contracts that were artfully vague in their requirements.

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Gloopy toppings, like egg salad with anchovies, or brandada de bacalao, an emulsion of salt cod and potato, can make for messy handoffs (there is only one piece per order), but a side of extra bread helps sop up spills.

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Several times Fulham were able to cut Arsenal open on the counterattack, and would have come away with a goalless draw if not for a complete mental breakdown on a 43rd minute set piece that gifted defender Per Mertesacker the lone goal of the match.

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But since Oyster is not an online travel site, per se, how will it get a piece of that action?

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Andy and I, the 1 per center and the curmudgeon all are invested in the stock market which is like having a piece of the real American economy that gives us some security against the ravages of inflation (which you have to be kind of old to remember).

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