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power utility files project plans for columbia county wind farm just months after opening the...
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Tomorrow Is Bid Day For Philadelphia Convention Center - Philadelphia Inquirer
from harrisburg to city hall, officials are waiting - anxiously - to see the numbers tomorrow when bids are opened for construction of a major chunk of the convention center expansion in center city. a lot is at stake: the projected cost of expanding ...
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Companies Bid Millions To Tap Western Gulf - Miami Herald
washington energy companies bid hundreds of millions of dollars wednesday to explore for oil and natural gas beneath 1.8 million acres in the western gulf of mexico, while looking forward to the possibility of future drilling in federal waters now ...
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Urbana School Board Oks Raises On Two Tiers For Substitutes
urbana – the urbana school board tuesday increased pay for substitute teachers. pay will go from $75 to $85 per day, with $90 per day after 10 days worked in the district. retired teachers who substitute in the district will have their pay raised from $110 to $125 per day for teachers substituting in all elementary schools. teachers substituting in only one school get an increase to $120 ...
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Coastal Business | Harley Party Kicks Off Ride To Milwaukee
myrtle beach harley party kicks off ride to milwaukee myrtle beach harley-davidson will host a party friday on the eve of a national ride to milwaukee to celebrate the company's 105th birthday.
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Iraq Seeks To Revive Oil Deal With China Reached Under Saddam - International Herald Tribune
baghdad : iraq is on the verge of reviving an 11-year-old contract with china worth $1.2 billion, its largest oil deal since the invasion in 2003. the deal sets new terms for an agreement reached between china and iraq under saddam hussein in 1997 ...
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Australia Stocks: Babcock, Paperlinx, Perilya, Santos, Tishman - Bloomberg
aug. 21 (bloomberg) -- the s&p/asx 200 index declined 54.30 points, or 1.1 percent, to 4,875.20 at the close in sydney. the broader all ordinaries index lost 47.90 points, or 1 percent, to 4,949.60, while the futures index expiring in september ...
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Don't Cut Your Marketing In Tough Times
when a small business cuts back advertising, it is like tossing kerosene on a fire — in this case, faltering sales. if promotion is considered a “soft” expense, many small businesses reduce the size and/or frequency of their advertising.
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Car Bomb Kills 12 Snc Workers In Algeria
montreal -- twelve algerian employees of snc-lavalin group inc. were killed in a terrorist bus bombing southeast of algiers, highlighting the dangers for canadian companies of doing business in high-risk regions.
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Hong Kong Shares Close Sharply Lower On Profit-taking, Earnings ... - Forbes
hong kong (xfn-asia) - share prices closed sharply lower on profit-taking following yesterday's gains, and on worries about second-half earnings prospects of local companies amid a weakening economy, dealers said. tycoon li ka-shing's flagships ...
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Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Are Pounded - Wall Street Journal
share prices of fannie mae and freddie mac plunged monday amid growing fears that the two largest providers of funding for u.s. home mortgages won't be able to avoid a government bailout. in 4 p.m. trading on the new york stock exchange, freddie ...
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Today's Business
united states mortgage giants bailout fears cause shares to plummet
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Business Briefs: Tuesday, August 19, 2008
nation 5.7% cut expected in labor day travelwashington — an airline trade group expects labor day travel to drop by 5.7 percent this year, as rising airfares and schedule cuts keep travelers home. the air transport association of america projected on monday that 16 million paying passengers will fly globally on u.s. airlines between aug. 27 and sept. 3. that would be down 5.7 percent from the 17 ...
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American Airlines Launches Internet Service On Some Flights - Dallas Morning News
aboard american airlines flight no. 1 – transcontinental flying underwent a sea change wednesday. during a six-hour flight from new york to los angeles, bek andersen was able to edit photos and send them to clients. michael lavine was able to watch ...
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The All-around Difference Between Nastia Liukin And Shawn Johnson - Los Angeles Times
beijing -- this is the difference between being the women's gymnastics all-around gold medalist and the balance beam gold medalist: all-around winner nastia liukin held a small post-olympics news conference at a palace in a garden. balance beam ...
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Business Brief
survey links politics with shopping habits
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Teaching Experience
business veterans claim you cannot teach ‘experience’, but european researchers say you can. the team developed software that helps players acquire real-life skills and realistic experiences through game playing. but this game is no executive toy.
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In Brief - Las Vegas Review Journal
warrenville, ill. general motors corp. and navistar international corp. said wednesday that they have dropped immediate plans for gm to sell its medium-duty truck business to navistar, citing market and economic changes. gm and the warrenville, ill ...
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Read All '"intel"' Posts In News - Business Tech - Cnet News
san francisco--intel is working on future technology that is capable of understanding human behavior and pointing people to the appropriate course of action. mobile devices of tomorrow will be smaller, yet equipped with more powerful computing ...
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United Stationers Signs Definitive Purchase Agreement With Emco Distribution, Llc
united stationers inc. (nasdaq:ustr), north america's largest broad line wholesale distributor of business products, today reported its wholly owned subsidiary, united stationers supply co., has signed a definitive purchase agreement with emco distribution, llc to acquire emco's new jersey business, including certain assets and liabilities. the $15 million purchase price, subject to post-closing ...
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