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57 min ago | KFVS12

Quinn disappointed in Caterpillar CEO's claims

Gov. Pat Quinn is defending the state's economic climate for business after published comments by Caterpillar's CEO which claimed Illinois hasn't done enough to attract and keep business.

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Related Topix: Pat Quinn, Caterpillar, Construction, US Governors, Insurance

5 hrs ago | KSLA-TV Shreveport

Dow to pay for water-filter beds in Plaquemine

Dow Chemical Co. will shore up Plaquemine's defenses against possible water contamination to avoid a repeat of an emergency in the 1990s when the city's aquifer tested positive for the chemical vinyl chloride.

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Related Topix: Plaquemine, LA, Rubber-Plastics, Dow Chemical, Chemicals

9 hrs ago | Hampshire Chronicle

BAE executives 'could net bonuses'

Bosses at BAE Systems are set to be rewarded with multimillion-pound bonuses, it has been reported, amid fears for the future of its Portsmouth shipyard and the failure of its Eurofighter consortium to land a large contract to supply fighter jets to India.

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Related Topix: Aerospace-Defense, BAE Systems

13 hrs ago | Daily Mail

Whitney Houston dead: Kim Kardashian, Amber Rose and Britney Spears...

And tonight not even the death of one of the music industry's biggest names was enough to halt a pre-Grammy's party in Hollywood.

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Related Topix: Whitney Houston, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Industrial Machines, Brady, Electronics, R-N-B, Kelly Rowland, Hip-Hop

Sat Feb 11, 2012

Cruising World

Full Profile

The Raymarine e7 that's been in the Panbo lab for a few weeks is proving itself quite able and well designed, but I've come across enough little glitches and omissions that I think it's also a good test of the new Ray's ability to push out software fixes and improvements.

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Related Topix: Raytech Holdings, Automakers

WKRC-TV Cincinnati

Usher's ex-wife goes to court

Singer Usher and Tameka Raymond arrive at the 2007 NBA All-Star Game at the Thomas & Mack Center on February 18, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Black Entertainment, Usher, R-N-B, Automakers, R and B, Las Vegas, NV, Entertainment

News and Star

Hidden lung disease caused Carlisle man's death

His youngest daughter, Lesley Mingins, found him dead on the floor of his living room on Dalegarth Avenue, Harraby, on September 14 last year.

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Related Topix: World News, United Kingdom, Cumbria County, England, Rubber-Plastics, CSL

Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance

Dow Corning Corp. helps do the laundry

A foam-control technology developed by the Dow Corning Corp. is helping detergent manufacturers clean things up.

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Related Topix: Dow Corning, Chemicals

BusinessWeek

High-Frequency Traders May Win Reprieve in Flash-Crash Rule

High-frequency traders may win a partial reprieve from proposed European Union rules designed to prevent a repeat of the so-called flash crash after banks and exchanges including Deutsche Bank AG and NYSE Euronext warned they could damage markets and lead to an exodus of traders.

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Related Topix: NYX, Inc, Automakers, Banking, Deutsche Bank AG, Financial Services, Science, Computer Science

Clovis Independent

Clovis sues Dow, Shell Oil over fouled water

Clovis is suing two chemical manufacturing giants over the toxic remains of a farm fumigant found in drinking-water wells around the community of nearly 100,000 people.

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Related Topix: Clovis, CA, Rubber-Plastics, Dow Chemical, Chemicals, Livingston, CA, Merced County, CA

Fri Feb 10, 2012

Herald Star Online

City to sell water for fracking

City Council agreed Thursday evening to a five-year contract with Chesapeake Exploration that will see the city sell up to 700,000 of treated wastewater, raw river water or treated potable water a day for fracking operations.

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Related Topix: Paper, Chesapeake, Chesapeake, OH

On Wall Street

Deutsche Boerse Can Retain Minority Stake in Direct Edge

The Department of Justice announced that it filed a notice with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss its antitrust lawsuit regarding the potential merger of Deutsche Boerse AG and NYSE Euronext.

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Related Topix: District of Columbia Government, Washington DC, NYX, Inc, Automakers

KTRE-TV Lufkin

Justice Department allows Temple-Inland buyout to move forward

International Paper Inc. will be allowed to go ahead with its $3.7 billion acquisition of smaller rival Temple-Inland Inc.

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Related Topix: Industrial Machines, Paper, TempleInland, Construction, International Paper, New Johnsonville, TN

Lancashire Telegraph

Fuel spill closes road between Blackburn and Preston

The A677 Preston New Road shut following an accident and an oil spillage at 4.50am from the A59 Whalley Road to Intack Lane by BAE Systems and Samlesbury Hall.

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Related Topix: Lancashire County, England, World News, United Kingdom, BAE Systems, Aerospace-Defense

Ledger-Enquirer.com

NYSE Euronext profit down on blocked merger costs

NYSE Euronext on Friday said costs related to its collapsed merger with German stock market Deutsche Boerse caused a slump in fourth quarter earnings.

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Related Topix: NYX, Inc, Automakers

Reuters

U.S. Air Force chief wants affordable new bomber

Affordability will be a deciding factor in the U.S. Air Force's drive to develop a new long-range bomber, the top general in the service said on Thursday, underscoring that he was not looking for an "extravagant" design.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Air Force, Northrop Grumman, Aerospace-Defense

Thu Feb 09, 2012

Reuters

UPDATE 4-Kodak to shutter camera business

Eastman Kodak Co, the inventor of the digital camera, plans to get out of that business in the first half of the year as the bankrupt company looks to cut costs.

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Related Topix: Cameras, Eastman Kodak, Photography, Digital Cameras, Electronics, Inventions, Science / Technology, Camcorders

WILL-TV Urbana

Quinn: Caterpillar Decision About Port Access

Gov. Pat Quinn believes Caterpillar Inc.'s decision to bypass Illinois as it looks to build a new plant and relocate some of its Japanese operations was based almost entirely on Illinois' lack of ocean access and had little to do with the state's business climate.

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Related Topix: Construction, Insurance, Caterpillar, Pat Quinn

The Economist

Manufacturing industry: The Midlandstand

KEVIN WARD shudders when he recalls December 2008. His engineering company, Brown & Holmes of Tamworth, began the month with a pretty full order book.

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WBAY-TV Green Bay

Kodak to stop making cameras, digital frames

Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday that it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames, marking the end of an era for the company that brought photography to the masses more than a century ago.

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Related Topix: Cameras, Eastman Kodak, Photography, Digital Cameras, Electronics, Camcorders

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