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Drum pioneer snares a big chunk of the market
The gig: Chief executive and founder of Valencia-based Remo Inc., a pioneer in drumhead technology and a leading manufacturer of drumheads for more than 50 years.
Background: Remo Belli, 82, started drumming at age 12, while growing up in the South Bend-...Tags: Health, Companies and Corporations, World War II (1939-1945), Music, Music Industry
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Carcinogen worries stick to food packaging
CONSUMER CONFIDENTIALThe next time you make some microwave popcorn or cook a frozen pizza, consider this: The packaging of many of these products contains a chemical that the Environmental Protection Agency considers potentially carcinogenic and wants businesses to...Tags: Health, Environmental Issues, 3M Co., Electrical Appliance, Consumers
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Mary Louise Bennett, longtime educator
Mary Louise Bennett, a longtime Anne Arundel County educator who was a founding member of the Chesapeake Academy, died Sunday from complications of an infection at Genesis Health Care Facility in Severna Park, where she had lived for the past three years....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Annapolis, Justice System, Judges
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Farm profits boom amid employment bust as owners automate
The property Kevin Liefer and his son, Kirk, cultivate in southern Illinois has been expanding for decades without adding a single manager. These are boom times for farming and a bust for farm jobs. The 3,600 acres of mostly corn, wheat and soybeans the...Tags: Career and Workplace, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Labor Markets, David Anderson , Economy, Business and Finance
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Martha Elizabeth (Deeter) Brown, 92, of Providence Place Chambersburg and formerly of Greencastle
Martha Elizabeth (Deeter) Brown, 92, of Providence Place Chambersburg and formerly of Greencastle, died Friday morning, Jan. 25, 2013, at Providence Place. She was the wife of the late Bruce B. Brown, her husband of 55 years who died Jan. 14, 2002. Born...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Somerset County (Pennsylvania), World War II (1939-1945), Somerset County (Maryland), Science and Technology
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Curtis B. Reiber, Army officer
Curtis B. Reiber, an Army intelligence officer whose career spanned three decades, died Nov. 20 of a stroke at Saint Agnes Hospital. He was 77.
The son of a DuPont Co. worker and a homemaker, Curtis Brooks Reiber was born in Centre Hall, Pa., and...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Iran, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Saudi Arabia, Colleges and Universities
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Cordelia P. Gilbert, homemaker
Cordelia P. "Cordy" Gilbert, a homemaker and flower arranger, died Nov. 24 of complications from Alzheimer's disease at Towson's Edenwald retirement community.
She was 91.
A daughter of farmers, Cordelia Phillips was born and raised in Laurel, Del.,...Tags: Edenwald, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Charles Street, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Baltimore County
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Dow Chemical to slash 2,400 jobs, close 20 plants
MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) - The Dow Chemical Co. will eliminate about 2,400 jobs and close roughly 20 manufacturing facilities as part of a restructuring plan aimed at coping with slowing economic growth in Europe and elsewhere. The manufacturing giant said...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Productivity, Labor Markets, European Debt Crisis, Dow Chemical Co.
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Europe, China taking toll on U.S. corporate profits
With U.S. stocks near five-year highs, the unmistakable reality of a sputtering global economy has hit home, stifling U.S. corporate sales and spooking investors. They started heading for the stock market exits last week, and they picked up the pace...
Tags: Moody's Corporation, Career and Workplace, IBM, Consumers, Earnings
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Washington Wakes up to Global Warming
By MATT CRENSON AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) -- Maybe it's the weird winter weather, or the newly Democratic Congress. Maybe it's the news reports about starving polar bears, or the Oscar nomination for Al Gore's global warming cri de coeur, "An...Tags: Henry Waxman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Alcoa Incorporated, Science and Technology, Ecosystems
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Bush: Obama's 'sherpa' with Europe
The Swampby Mark Silva What an international dance is taking place today: Around the perimeters of a global Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy which President Bush has convened on a rainy day in the nation's capital, the leaders......Tags: U.S. Presidential Election (2008), International Organizations, Dmitry Medvedev, White House, National Government
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