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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: Politics, G8, Dmitry Medvedev, International Organizations, White House
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White is Top Car-Color Choice Again This Year
KickingTiresThere's probably a really obvious D.L. Hughley joke in this story. According to the 2008 DuPont Global Color Popularity Report, White and White Pearl are America's choice for favorite car color, with 16% and 4% of the market share, respectively.......Tags: Vehicles, Dennis J. Kucinich, Services and Shopping, Marketing, Corporate Performance
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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: Computer Hardware, Consumers, Stock Market, Quarterly or Semiannual Financial Statements, McDonald's
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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: Politics, Environmental Politics, Diseases and Illnesses, Consumers, Bill Walker
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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: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Genesis (music group), Severna Park, Colon Cancer, Teaching and Learning
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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: Monsanto Company, David Anderson , Career and Workplace, Finance, Investments
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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 (Maryland), World War II (1939-1945), Science and Technology, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
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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), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Arable Farming, Christianity, Anglicanism
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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: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland), Edenwald, Alzheimer's Disease, 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: European Debt Crisis, Science and Technology, Europe, Dow Chemical Co., Productivity
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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: Caterpillar Inc., Christianity, Ecosystems, Global Warming, Conservation
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