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Stimulus boosts Japan growth
Japan grew at a 3.5 percent clip in the first quarter relative to the same period last year, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ambitious program to combat deflation and revitalize the world's third-biggest economy began to yield results. Driven by private consumption, public investment and exports, Japan's economy expanded 0.9 percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2012, marking the second ...
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Hodgson Bernstein urges lead England football figure Becks to reconsider retirement
England national football team manager Roy Hodgson and FA chairman David Bernstein have paid tributes to the football star David Beckham and urged him to stay at the game, saying that he is a charismatic and talented player the football world cannot afford to lose. The tributes follow Beckham's retirement announcement, the Mirror reports. Hodgson looks at Beckham as all-time-great talent and ...
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German unions agree on engineering industry contract
On Tuesday night, the IG Metall (IGM) and the employers' association in the state of Bavaria signed a contract for workers in the engineering industry. It serves as a model agreement for 3.7 million workers employed in the sector throughout Germany.Engineering workers will receive an extra 3.4 percent pay from July and another 2.2 percent wage increase commencing May 1, 2014. The contract ...
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SOCAR raises automobile gasoline production
1news.az reports with reference to SOCAR that sources in the company announced production of 454,900 tonnes of automobile gasoline, 51.700 tonnes of virgin gasoline within four months. Meanwhile, production of automobile gasoline has risen by 20.5% and production of virgin gasoline dropped by 22%. SOCAR produced 1,444,000 tonnes of gasoline in 2012. 1,296,000 tonnes of automobile gasoline ...
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Extra lessons big business in schools
Officials of the Education Ministry yesterday reiterated this policy position during a sitting of the Joint Select Committee of the Parliament. However, the National Parent Teacher Association (NPTA) said this policy was not being enforced, and lessons ...
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Stocks surge higher on positive news about US economy
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City. Stocks surged higher, the fourth straight week of gains for Wall Street. (Spencer Platt/Getty ...
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Organic food companies gain Washington clout
U.S. sales of organic foods reached $35 billion last year, and the ...
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Thirty-Three Defendants Charged in Staged Automobile Accident Scheme www.privateofficer.com
MIAMI FLA MAY 18 2013 Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office; Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI); Jeff Atwater, Florida Chief Financial Officer; and Dave Aronberg, State ...
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Obama talks economy jobs in Baltimore
Barack Obama found himself sitting near a 29-year-old man who was uncertain how to reset his life after being released from prison two years ago. In one of the few spontaneous moments of the president's visit, Marcus Dixon - father of two boys - told Obama how he connected in 2011 with a workforce development group called the Center for Urban Families, put his life back together and began ...
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Global research team decodesgenome sequence of 90 chickpea...
Hyderabad, India, and Shenzhen, In a scientific breakthrough that promises improved grain yields and quality, greater drought tolerance and disease resistance, and enhanced genetic diversity, a global research team has completed high-quality sequencing of not one but ninety genomes of ...
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Obesity campaign finance stem cells and more
Thank you for your recent excellent coverage on the "soda tax" ("Soda tax is part of obesity solution," Opinion, May 17). The three medical experts, Goldstein, Wood and Serpas, are to be commended. For years the dental profession has warned patients that consuming great amounts of sugary drinks will result in dental decay ...
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New Microsoft CFOs compensation package disclosed
Welcome to Microsoft Pri0: That's Microspeak for top priority, and that's the news and observations you'll find here from Seattle Times technology reporter Janet I. ...
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Minister confident about Afghan resources industry
Afghan mining minister, Wahidullah Shahrani, says his country has launched an aggressive program to develop a strong base for the governance of the mining ...
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Lamphier Steel yourself for more bad news — Spanish and South Korean companies win Walterdale Bridge contracts
EDMONTON - First, Quebec. Now Spain and South Korea.For the second time in a few weeks, outside firms have left local bidders out of luck in the fight over contracts for a key public works project.A consortium led by the Canadian arm of Spanish infrastructure giant Acciona S.A. is poised to win the contract to build the new Walterdale Bridge, the city confirms.The $125 million bid by ...
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F.B.I. Tapes Give Glimpse Into World of High-Stakes Gambling
The description of the poker games and the wagers were among the details found in hundreds of conversations and text messages secretly captured by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, exposing the shadowy and illegal world of high-stakes gambling in New York ...
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Economics Daily Digest Its Gatsbys world theyre just working in it
Today ) Roosevelt Institute | Pipeline Fellow Nona Willis Aronowitz writes that while pundits sneer at Millennials, members of the generation that came of age during the Great Recession are too busy working to improve the bad hand they've been dealt to have time for ...
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Governor Signs Manufacturing Tax Break Law
Scott on Friday signed a bill that creates a tax break for the state's manufacturers. The governor made it official during a stop at a Tampa manufacturing firm. The measure (HB 7007) exempts manufacturers from having to pay sales taxes on equipment purchases for three years. The tax break starts in April 2014 and runs until April 2017. The new law also creates a new nonprofit corporation to ...
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Election upset has B.C. film industry reeling over lost tax breaks
A film crew on the set of "Bates Motel," in Aldergrove, British Columbia. NDP Leader Adrian Dix had promised a 40 per cent tax break for the province's film industry. (STUART ...
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Richard Cramer biomedical industry pioneer
Richard A. Cramer, a biomedical industry veteran and philanthropist who served as chairman of The Scripps Research Institute, has died at the age of ...
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Social-gifting boom spawns dozens of companies
Aaron Forth of Swedish social-gifting company Wrapp works at the San Francisco office. The United States is the service’s fastest-growing ...
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Worlds oldest university poised for revival in India after 800 years
Nalanda University, an ancient seat of learning destroyed in 1193, is poised for revival. According to The Independent, an ambitious plan to establish an international university with the same overarching vision as Nalanda - and located alongside its physical ruins - has been spearheaded by a team of international experts and leaders, among them the Nobel-winning economist Amartya Sen. This ...
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Thomson Alberta adds trade offices to boost business and image
It is a public relations campaign unlike anything Alberta has ever seen, literally global in scope.The Alberta government is expanding its international profile by opening six more international trade offices -- in Chicago, Singapore, Brazil (likely Rio de Janeiro), India, California (likely San Francisco) and one more in southern China. They're in addition to the 10 offices we already have ...
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Al-Zaatari in Jordan Soon to Become World’s Largest Refugee Camp
Al-Zaatari, Jordan, the second largest refugee camp in the world, is set to become the largest by the end of this year. The camp, already home to 500,000 refugees, receives between 2,000 – 4,000 refugees on days when the violence in Syria is especially dire, and will soon overtake the Dabaab camp near the Somali-Kenyan border as the highest-populated refugee camp in the world. According to ...
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Popular Resistance Is Percolating Across the Country -- Inspiring Activism That the Corporate Media Always Ignores
Every week we are inspired by the many people throughout the country who are doing excellent work to challenge the power structure and put forward a new path for the country. The popular resistance to plutocracy, concentrated wealth and corporatism is decentralized, creative and growing. One growing series of protests has been the "MoralMonday" demonstrations in North Carolina. They ...
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The Saturday Profile Europe Economist Rehn Rejects ‘Austerity’ Label
BRUSSELS OLLI REHN, the European Union's top economic policy maker and scourge of debt-fueled budget deficits, is fed up with austerity. Or at least with being tarred by a term that "is clearly used to label somebody as an unworthy person who is almost eating ...
North America Feature
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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