24 car dealers in Minnesota are back in business Star Tribune Stillwater Motors was down to the last few Buicks on the lot. But the third-generation General Motors dealership is looking to the future and ready to order -- and hire -- again after GM included it among the 661 dealerships nationwide that it has saved from the chopping block. The dealership, which...
Oversight Risk Consulting Opens Office in Colombia redOrbit Posted on: Tuesday, 9 March 2010, 09:15 CST BOGOTA, March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Oversight Risk Consulting announced today the re-opening of their office in Bogota, Colombia. Oversight specializes in security risk management, consulting and services. "We are pleased to again be open for business in...
A new finger on the pulse of economy Star Tribune Want to know which way the economy is headed? Find out how much diesel fuel is being burned by the nation's over-the-road truckers. That's the theory behind a new economic index developed by Bloomington-based Ceridian Corp., a provider of electronic payments services, and UCLA's Anderson School of...
Okajima quite happy being who, where he is The Providence Journal FORT MYERS, Fla. - He is quiet and confident and reliable and just plain good, so 's nondescript nature stands out in a bullpen that has big personalities like and on a pitching staff that includes his mega-star countryman . Okajima likes it that way. In the three years he's played American...
Business group balks at cost of wind power The Providence Journal WARWICK - Some of Rhode Island's largest users of electricity have come out for the first time in opposition to a proposed power-purchase agreement between National Grid and the developer of an eight-turbine wind farm in waters off Block Island. The executive director of the Energy Council of Rhode...
Nikkei flat as exporters gain but Toyota falls The Guardian * Exporters in favour after Japan machinery data -analyst * Toyota down after news of Prius probe, Tundra recall * Nikkei up 50% since hitting 26-yr closing low a year ago * Global econ condition hinders more foreign buying -analyst By Aiko Hayashi TOKYO, March 10 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average...
Health Care's Obstacle: No Will to Cut The New York Times For anyone who cares about medical costs — which is to say anyone who cares about the take-home pay of American families or about the budget deficit — President Obama’s health reform plan is a terribly mixed bag. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press President Obama held a...
Shares of Bailed Out Companies Surge The New York Times Filed at 9:35 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Shares of four companies that have received huge infusions of taxpayer cash soared Tuesday after a report that the government would sell its stake in Citigroup Inc. raised hopes that other bailed-out companies would follow. Shares of Citi rose 26 cents, or 7.3 percent, to close at $3.82. Earlier in the day, Fox BusinessNetwork said the government has met with investment...
Fishermen's fear: Public's 'right to fish' shifting under Obama? Yahoo Daily News Atlanta – The Obama administration has proposed using United Nations-guided principles to expand a type of zoning to coastal and even some inland waters. That’s raising concerns among fishermen that their favorite fishing holes may soon be off-limits for bait-casting. In the battle of incremental change that epitomizes the American conservation movement, many weekend anglers fear that the Obama administration’s...
Mantenna - Tuesday, March 9 Spike The Letterman extortionist cops a plea, Jim from The Office could be the next Captain America, and the Beastie Boys delay their new album...you had me at "Mantenna!" Photo: SGranitz/Getty Images Alleged Letterman Extortionist Cops Plea Robert "Joe" Halderman, the man who recently tired to extort $2 million from David Letterman, has pleaded guilty to one count of attempted first-degree grand larceny. As...
Nikkei inches higher on exporters, Toyota falls The Guardian * Exporters in favour after Japan machinery data -analyst * Toyota down; news of Prius probe, expanded tundra recall * Nikkei up 50% since hitting 26-yr closing low a year ago By Aiko Hayashi TOKYO, March 10 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei average rose 0.2 percent on Wednesday, with exporters gaining after stronger-than expected machinery orders data, but recall-hit Toyota Motor Corp fell after an incident involving a...
Toyota: Open test disproves U.S. critic Asahi News TORRANCE, Calif.--Toyota Motor Corp. said a public test of its electronic throttle control system had disproved claims that malfunctioning electronics were to blame for problems with runaway acceleration experienced by some Toyota drivers. Monday's test was conducted to discredit testimony given by David Gilbert,...
Accelerating intra-African trade and investment (2) Business Day Online The potential for realizing regional tradetoday is constrained by policy barriers that persist even in the presence of Regional Trade Agreements ostensibly designed to remove them. For example, in the case of import duties, despite scheduling commitments to liberalize these under the SADC and COMESA FTAs, a number of Southern African countries have failed to meet their obligations and so tariff barriers on...
Vision 2010: a dangerous myopia The Hindu Amiya Kumar Bagchi The Central budget of 2010-11 is a further step in the realisation of a vision of India vibrant with the income, wealth, saving, education and the entrepreneurial energy of the top 5-10 per cent of the population and the rest of Indians, serving that minority and surviving as barely literate, malnourished multitude....
