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Narrows escape

The sudden decision by AbitibiBowater to stop cutting in northwestern Ontario's Whiskey Jack forest has got enviros popping the champagne.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Bowater, Paper, Activism, International Falls, MN

Sun Feb 12, 2012

Rome News

I don't see where our mill is mentioned. Why wo...

Temple-Inland will be sold to Memphis, Tenn.-based International Paper for $3.7 billion.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Industrial Machines, Paper, TempleInland, International Paper

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, Manufacturing, US Governors, Insurance

Alabama Live

Vulcan Materials fights hostile takeover bid from Martin Marietta Materials in not-so-sexy business

To many people, the business of mining and crushing rock -- the main one of Birmingham-based Vulcan Materials Co.

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Related Topix: Martin Marietta Materials, Vulcan Materials, 9, North Carolina

Austin American-Statesman

Ex-Dallas Mayor Leppert touts business experience, but his record is mixed

Former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert is running for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination on a simple message: Lawyers and career politicians don't know how to create jobs; Leppert, as a proven businessman, does.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, Dallas, TX, Turner Construction, Claremont McKenna College, McKinsey & Company

BusinessWeek

Gross Buys Treasuries Buffett calls 'Dangerous'

Pacific Investment Management Co.'s Bill Gross increased his holdings of Treasuries to the highest level since July 2010, while billionaire investor Warren Buffett called them "dangerous." Gross boosted U.S. government and Treasury debt to 38 percent of assets in Pimco's $250.5 billion Total Return Fund, the world's biggest bond fund.

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Related Topix: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, Investment Services, Financial Services, BlackRock, Financial Markets, Jay, NY

Sat Feb 11, 2012

Silicon Alley Insider

An Inside Look At Berkshire Hathaway

Charlie Rose recently joined Warren Buffett for a rare inside look at Berkshire Hathaway.

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Related Topix: Business Wire, Berkshire Hathaway , Startups, Berkshire Hathaway, Insurance, Empire Group, Investment Services, Warren Buffett, Financial Services, Travelers Express Company

The Advocate Online

Ready to Expand: Danville will undertake $28 million water project

Danville City Engineer Earl Coffey talks about a pump that delivers water from one of the clear wells at the treatment plant to customers.

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Related Topix: Danville, KY, Boyle County, KY, HDR, Inc, Architecture

Chicago Tribune

Foreclosure settlement not likely to lift home builders' stocks

The $25-billion foreclosure settlement between the government and major banks might lift the U.S. housing market over time.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Foreclosures, Home Buying, Home, KB Home, Housing, Business News

MLive.com

Follow The Flint Journal's live tweets tonight from Wayne Brady's performance at The...

Weeks after his interview with Wayne Brady, Flint Journal entertainment writer William E. Ketchum III will be tweeting live from Brady's performance at The Whiting tonight.

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Related Topix: WhitingTurner Contracting, Twitter, Entertainment

Malaysian National News Agency

CIPA Bill 2011 To Have Tremendous Impact On Construction Industry

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 11 -- The Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Bill 2011 will have tremendous impact on the construction industry when it is passed by Parliament.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, Malaysia, World News

Salon

Unions in a "death spiral?" Not on my job site

With his assertions in Salon thatA "unions are in a death spiral " and "private sector unionism has all but vanished," Arun Gupta advances a shortsighted and incomplete narrative promoted too often by the mainstream media.

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Fri Feb 10, 2012

LA Weekly

Valentine's Day Chocolates Food Fight: Godiva vs. See's

Mr. Bear keeps Godiva's 15-piece assortment in a red satin box away from See's traditional red heart with assorted chocolates.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Candy, Drink, Liquor, Cordials and Schnapps, Recipes, Chocolate, Berkshire Hathaway, Investment Services

The Washington Post

Buffett Says Bonds Among `Most Dangerous of Assets'

Warren Buffett, the billionaire chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said low interest rates and inflation should dissuade investors from buying bonds and other holdings tied to currencies.

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Related Topix: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, Investment Services, Business News

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: Manufacturing, Industrial Machines, Paper, TempleInland, International Paper, New Johnsonville, TN

IcRefrewshire

33 lose job as floor firm goes bust

KPMG was appointed administrators of Stuarts Industrial Flooring on Thursday and the redundancies, totalling 102 across the UK, take effect immediately.

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WLS-AM Chicago

Quinn: Caterpillar decision about port access

Gov. Pat Quinn said Thursday that he 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: Manufacturing, Insurance, Caterpillar, Illinois, Pat Quinn, US Governors, Champaign, IL

RTE.ie

Robust construction meeting ends at LRC

A meeting of the Construction Industry Federation and trade unions has ended at the Labour Relations Commission following what was described as a "robust exchange". The CIF is seeking a 20% cut in the rates of pay contained in the Registered Employment Agreement for workers in the construction industry, which the Irish Congress of Trade Unions has ... (more)

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People's Daily Online

IDQ plans to satisfy craving for ice cream

INTERNATIONAL Dairy Queen Inc, part of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway family, plans to open another 500 stores in the next five years in China to quench the increasing appetite for ice cream that has made it the hottest market for global expansion.

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Related Topix: Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway, Investment Services, Minneapolis, MN

Thu Feb 09, 2012

International Business Times

Job Cuts Hit Australia's Construction Industry

Kell & Rigby, one of A construction worker works on the framework for a single family home currently under construction in Los Angeles, California October 18, 2011.

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Related Topix: Australia, Oceania, World News

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