JMB's properties were lost in a junk heap of unneeded new office buildings that hadn't a prayer of finding tenants.

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There is no real protagonist or, rather, the protagonist is the oil business itself, which gets people killed, tortured, blown up, thrown on the junk heap.

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Motorola, Nokia and Blackberry are now in the junk heap.

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The winners included some unexpected brands Buick and Jeep, for instance and the big losers included some well-respected Japanese brands, not just the cast-off American brands like Pontiac and Saturn that are headed to the junk heap.

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"All this land right here, this is the hot zone, " said Kevin Shelley, 35, pointing to an unrecognizable heap of junk.

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