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Bridge closure could pinch area economy
The Skagit River Bridge is a forgettable steel structure to drivers whizzing past on Interstate 5. But Thursday’s collapse of a span just before the busy Memorial Day weekend closed part of I-5 and sent businesses and government leaders scrambling to minimize the potential economic hit. "We do a lot of business out of Vancouver," said Ken Kettler, president of Tulalip Resort ...
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Kasey Kahne of Enumclaw is eager to defend his Coca-Cola 600 title | Auto racing
CONCORD, N.C. — The Coca-Cola 600 is a long day that bleeds into a long night. Drivers can either fight that reality or embrace it. Count defending champion Kasey Kahne of Enumclaw as someone who loves the longest race of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. "I've always really liked the longer races," Kahne said. "It gives you more time to work on your car, more time ...
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Electronics outsourcing weakened Boeing’s control over 787’s crucial systems
Boeing once had a division that designed electronic controls and managed suppliers of related components, but as the company geared up for the 787 it outsourced that work and weakened its control over crucial ...
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Neurotech industry is putting its mind to video games
In the past decade, video games have helped push cutting-edge technologies such as sensor-based computing - Nintendo’s Wii - and gesture-based computing - Microsoft’s Kinect - into the mainstream. Neurotech boosters hope video games can do the same for their budding ...
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UFC 160 live blog Fighters from around the world competing at MGM Grand
Dennis Bermudez pounds on Max Holloway on his way to a split decision win in their bout at UFC 160 Friday, May 24, 2013 at the MGM Grand Garden ...
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China is now worlds second largest moviegoing country
May 25--Related: Mayor Villaraigosa off to China to promote business Movies are bigger than ever. At least, they are in China. The nation of 1.35 billion became the second largest filmgoing market on the planet last year, its box office receipts of $2.7 billion muscling out Japan from that spot. That was a whopping 36 percent higher than the 2011 ticket sales in the People's Republic, and ...
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Demonstrators rally against Monsanto in global anti-GMO protest
FILE - This Aug. 31, 2011 file photo shows the Monsanto corporate logo at their exhibit booth during the Farm Progress Show, in Decatur, Ill. Marches and rallies against seed giant Monsanto are getting under way across the U.S. and in dozens of foreign countries Saturday, May 25, 2013. ';March Against Monsanto'; protesters say they want to call attention to the dangers posed by ...
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Some doctors seeking business experience to deal with changing health care
But an increasing number of physicians have accepted the situation and are seeking business training as they adjust to pressures that they cut costs and improve the quality of health ...
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Real World Economics U.S. tax policy has winners and losers
Problems in the U.S. system of taxing corporate income were front and center this past week as senators grilled Apple CEO Tim Cook about his company's tax minimization measures. Yet no one argued that Apple has violated U.S. tax laws or even that it is particularly aggressive or egregious in its tax avoidance. It is simply large, well-known and highly global in its operations. And this ...
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Book Review The Girls of Atomic City The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan
Now in their 80s and 90s, the girls of Atomic City are no longer in the dark about the jobs they took during the summer of 1943. But back then, as employees of the Clinton Engineering Works, they knew only a few things for sure about the place they would call home.The work site had belonged to 1,000 East Tennessee farming families up until 1942, when the government seized 60,000 acres of their ...
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Companies dying of embarrassment Business Mentors Warns
Source: Photos.com Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are too ashamed to seek help when they need it most, Business Mentors New Zealand warns. Many SMEs run into trouble early in their development but won't ask for the help that could see them through a rough patch, chief executive Ray Schofield says. "There are lots of challenges in those first few months and early years of ...
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Doug Ford denies drug-dealing allegations demands apology
Public opinion of Mayor Rob Ford all that counts TORONTO - Councillor Doug Ford wants an apology. The embattled Etobicoke councillor says media reports that he sold drugs as young man are an "absolute lie" motivated by a desire to politically attack both him and his brother Mayor Rob Ford. ...
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This week the World Affairs Council
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Cranberry Water Park is ready for business
The next round of upgrades being considered for the Cranberry Water Park includes the possible addition of a baby pool, officials said, but the project depends on ...
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A World War II Memorial day
At an entrance to the World War II Memorial, a lone man cut a solemn figure as he balanced an iPad in one hand, a cane in the other, to film 12 bronze panels depicting the lives of soldiers during the ...
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The worlds top universities in 2012
a popular global ranking of universities put out this week by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a British-based higher education consulting firm, whose annual World University Rankings list is topped by three institutions that call a city of Cambridge home.Overall, the United States and United Kingdom dominate the leader board, but they're increasingly being challenged in crucial science and ...
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Haitang Bay promotes rapid growth in Sanyas hospitality industry
Sanya is likely to see the highest rate of growth to date in its hospitality industry as its hotel expansion has been at a rate unprecedented in China. The city has attracted over 40 international hotel operators to open new hotels in the city. Compared with Yalong Bay, there is far more potential within the luxury hotel market in Haitang Bay. The first phase of the newly built Haitang Bay ...
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Make-A-Wish whisks local teen to Disney World
(WBIR-Knoxville) Make-A-Wish Foundation whisked a local teen battling heart issues to the most magical place on earth. Garrett, 14, has had several surgeries in the past on his heart. His one wish was to travel to Orlando and visit Disney World, Universal and all the other theme parks. On Saturday, he took off from McGhee Tyson Airport to Florida. His mother, Connie Metcalf, said ...
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Doug Ford disputes Globe report on family history with drug dealing
Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, photographed in his office at the family business in Etobicoke, Ont., in February, 2011. (Peter Power/The Globe and ...
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Business Butterfly farming brings fluttering fortunes for Taita
Whenever I meet with people and tell them that I am a butterfly farmer, they look at me with a sense of incredulity and ...
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Business MPs dont cry over pay curb wasteful spending
Government looks for money to finance old debts and recurrent expenditure. The current account deficit (which is a measure of payments for imports against earnings from exports) has continued to widen over the past ten years or so, with the value of imports rising faster than that of exports. This has further raised questions on the country's ability to expand its exports ...
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Fracking energy revolution begins to rock the world
FILE - In this March 29, 2013 file photo, workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. gas well outside Rifle, in western Colorado. The Obama administration is proposing a rule that would require companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations. The new ...
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Memorials to a Forgotten World War
Memory can fail you, abandon you, deceive you. It will. To thwart this, we make monuments and plaques and street signs and scatter them about like breadcrumbs in a forest. It doesn’t work. A monument can’t come to you and tell you about a great person or important event; you have to find it, or stumble upon it, and pause in your daily perambulations to read the thing. And with few ...
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John Rice vice chairman of General Electric talks global business
John Rice, vice chairman of General Electric Co., discusses the demands his business faces with $150 billion in revenue last year and more than 300,000 ...
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ORTEC Names Aantjes Global CTO
has promoted Corne Aantjes, CEO of its North American operations, to serve as global CTO, and to the global executive board.Aantjes joined the company in 1994 as a solution architect and opened ORTEC's North American headquarters in Atlanta in 2001. He will now relocate to ORTEC's new global headquarters, which just opened in the Netherlands.The logistics optimization software company ...
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Shipping Wars: Uruguay and Argentina face off over rival port expansion plans
Argentina and Uruguay both want to be the shipping hubs of South America, or southern South America at least, and both are planning to considerably expand their port infrastructure in Buenos Aires and Montevideo respectively, which is leading to considerable diplomatic strain.
Argentina is a regional power in South America, the country is considered one of the more developed nations on the continent on-par with Uruguay (on paper at least, with a similar per capita income and Human Development Index rating) although the country occupies a majority of the continent with Brazil and presides over a massive coastline. Read more
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