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Dividend-reinvestment plans offer low-cost stock ownership
With price consciousness and diversification so vital to investors in an uncertain year, dividend-reinvestment plans fit right in. DRIPs, as they are commonly called, are company-run plans that allow you to invest in a firm's stock with a modest...Tags: MDU Resources Group Incorporated, Companies and Corporations, Tennant Company, International Paper Company, BP Plc
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Obama wins fight on halting F-22s, new skirmishes with Boeing on horizon
Associated Press WriterThe Obama administration has chalked up a quick victory in its drive to kill an expensive jet fighter better suited for the Cold War than Afghanistan, but more skirmishes with job-rich defense contractors and their allies in Congress are just over the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, U.S. Military, State Budgets, Defense
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Lawsuits spotlight employees' hidden 401(k) fees
Baltimore SunEmployees at 10 of the nation's largest companies recently shook the 401(k) world by suing their employers over their plans' fees. The workers claim the employers failed to make sure the plan fees are reasonable, as required. By taking their gripes to...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Employers, Personal Finance, Career and Workplace, Mutual Funds
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Fee-based ID check cuts wait times
Sentinel Staff WriterTravelers eager to cut their security wait at Orlando International Airport can take the first step today when the airport begins accepting applications for a new, privately run program. By volunteering to undergo a background check in advance,...Tags: Business Trips, Trips and Vacations, Travel, Transportation Industry, Orlando International Airport
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NASA again looks at foam that hit wing
Sun StaffNASA investigators seeking the cause of Saturday's shuttle disaster are taking another hard look at a sheet of insulating foam that broke away from Columbia's external fuel tank and struck the craft's left wing during liftoff Jan. 16. Engineers had...Tags: Heavy Engineering, Arts and Culture, Defense, Gaming, Science and Technology
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Space shuttle loss hurts Lockheed, other NASA stocks
Sun StaffAs NASA continued to investigate the shuttle Columbia's disintegration and ponder the future of the nation's manned space program, Wall Street seemed to draw its own conclusion yesterday and punished stocks of the shuttle's manufacturers - along with...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Science, Ducommun Incorporated, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Alliant Techsystems Inc.
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Environment groups vow to defeat Buhl
Sun StaffThe state's leading environmental organizations announced yesterday that they will try to block Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s nominee to head the Department of the Environment, saying she lacks the experience needed to head the agency. Ten environmental...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Detroit, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Environmental Pollution, Brian E Frosh
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Who and what to watch in 2001
Places and prospects Housing How the housing sector will perform is critical to the area's economy. New homes drive demand for building materials such as lumber, siding, brick and Sheetrock, and fuel construction and supplier jobs. Consumers buying both...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Peter G. Angelos, Medicaid, Insurance, Clubs and Associations
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Protective tiles efficient, yet fragile
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe fragile thermal tiles that protect space shuttles on their fiery reentries to Earth's atmosphere are extremely effective in dissipating heat, but they also have a history of problems that make them a constant concern. The focus on the tiles' role...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Entertainment, Gaming, Science and Technology, Technology
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Troubled Boeing weighs impact of shuttle tragedy
Tribune staff reporterThe space shuttle Columbia disaster comes at a difficult time for Boeing Co. Already suffering from enornmous declines in its commercial airplane business, the Chicago-based aerospace giant now has been humbled by a disaster in its most prestigious...Tags: New Products, Contracts, Science and Technology, NASA, Technology
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Defense shares lower after disaster
The Associated PressShares of Lockheed Martin Corp. fell Monday, as investors grew wary of the potential economic fallout from the destruction of the space shuttle Columbia. Lockheed, based in Bethesda, makes the external fuel tanks used by the shuttle during liftoff, and...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Metal and Mineral, New York Weather, Stock Market, Defense
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Firm has plans for Balto. Co. lagoon project
Sun StaffHoping to create a shoreline promenade and tourist anchor on land once envisioned as a "mini-Harborplace," aerospace giant Lockheed Martin Corp. is putting together a major development project that will be key to Baltimore County's waterfront...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Entertainment, Hotels and Accommodations, Local Government, Gaming
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