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Breaking News Sun, 8 Nov 2009
Ford Fiesta VI
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Ford may narrow loss as CEO seeks sales momentum
Asbury Park Press
Next Page 1 | 2 Previous Page | Ford Motor Co. may narrow its third- quarter operating loss after winning more U.S. market share on the strength of a reputation enhanced by avoiding bankruptcy. | Ford will post an adjusted loss Nov. 2 of 22 cents a share, down from a year-earlier loss of $1.31, or $...
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The Roanoke Times
| ADVERTISING | NEATHAWK DUBUQUE & PACKETT has been awarded five 2009 HealthLeaders Media Marketing Awards. | CONSTRUCTION | Martin Bros. Contractors Inc. announced the addition of REGGIE REYNOLDS as project manager and ELIZABETH FLETCHALL as marketi...
Verbal and physical affection - important for your children's succesful growth
The Examiner
| Failure to thrive – a label given to babies, sometimes even toddlers, who are struggling to properly grow according to standard measurements. Besides any possible intravenous or respiratory support the babies may need, nurses in a neonatal un...
No. 16 Miami rolls past slumping Virginia, 52-17
The Examiner
Comments MIAMI (Map, News) - A defense that couldn't stop anything a week ago was suddenly airtight. An oft-injured running back had the best game of his career. And a punt returner somehow evaded seven would-be tacklers on his way to a touchdown. | ...
Marketing in the Digital Age: Batteries Not Included - Free Webinar
The Examiner
| Digital Book World will be holding a free webinar on Wednesday November 11 @ 1:00pm EST. | Marketing in the Digital Age: Batteries Not Included will help teach you the strategy and tools needed to captivate your reader audience and help promote mar...
Energy company gives $300k for Md. tree planting
Wtop
| BALTIMORE (AP) - An energy company is spending $300,000 to help plant trees in Baltimore. | Constellation Energy is committing the money over the next three years to help with tree planting and maintenance for existing trees. Constellation's contri...
Heroes rushed into gunfire at Fort Hood
Nashville Tennessean
Next Page 1 | 2 | 3 Previous Page | FORT HOOD, Texas — Pfc. Marquest Smith, on his way to Afghanistan in January, was completing routine paperwork about a bee-sting allergy when the sounds erupted. | A loud, popping noise. Moans. The sudden, urgent s...
Elk
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Va. to size up impact of increasing elk population
The News Tribune
| Virginia game officials will study the consequences of increasing the number of Rocky Mountain elk in the state's remote southwest corner, a move opposed by cattle farmers fearfu...
Philip Morris - Marlboro
WN / Sweet Radoc
Philip Morris International 3Q profit falls
Seattle Times
RICHMOND, Va. - | Cigarette maker Philip Morris International Inc., which sells Marlboros and other U.S. brands abroad, said Thursday its third-quarter profit fell nearly 14 percen...
LaPlace, La., October 8, 2005 - Dan Waldman (left), left without a job as a high school teacher at Signature Centers High School in New Orleans when it was flooded by Hurricane Katrina, has been hired by FEMA
Public Domain / Win Henderson
7,000 unemployed Americans lose their lifeline every day
CNN
Losing their lifeline - 7,000 a day | As the Senate debates whether to extend unemployment benefits, more than 200,000 jobless Americans are set to see their checks stop in October...
AES sells stake to China sovereign fund for $1.58B
The Examiner
Comments ARLINGTON, Va. (Map, News) - Global power company AES Corp. said Friday it is selling a 15 percent stake in itself to China's investment arm for $1.58 billion in a move to raise cash to develop projects around the world. | AES also said its ...
FDA warns Web companies not to sell flavored cigs
The Examiner
Comments RICHMOND, Va. (Map, News) - The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it has warned several companies to stop selling banned flavored cigarettes to U.S. consumers online. | The agency sent letters this week to more than a dozen Web-b...
Virginia Supreme Court upholds power line plan
The State
| RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia Supreme Court upheld permits for construction of a multistate power line Thursday, rejecting a claim by the project's opponents that state regulators ceded too much authority to the federal government. | The court unan...
Potential problems at 20 W.Va. coal ash dams
The Boston Globe
| CHARLESTON, W.Va.-The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection may change its policy for inspecting coal ash impoundments after a survey uncovered more problems -- and dams -- than expected. | A report detailing the survey shows enginee...
Money
Cigarette - Tobacco - Health
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Cigarette demand falling, but profits solid
The Examiner
Comments RICHMOND, Va. (Map, News) - The weak economy and higher prices are snuffing out cigarette demand around the world - most vigorously in the U.S., where a federal tax hike, smoking bans, health concerns and social stigma have cut demand at least 10 percent. | Two of the world's biggest cigarette makers reported Thursday that they emerged fro...



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