Monthly Archives: November 2008

Few blessings for turkey industry this year – MSNBC

Few blessings for turkey industry this year – MSNBC
MILWAUKEE – Thanksgiving is bringing turkey producers little to celebrate this year, while diners anticipating the most poultry-centric of holidays may be grateful that they won’t see much difference in the cost of their bird. Meat producers have

Alaska Airlines inaugurates Seattle-Kona service – Pacific Business News
Alaska Airlines started year-round service between Seattle and the Big Island on Monday. The airline, a subsidiary of Seattle-based Alaska Air Group Inc. (NYSE: ALK), will depart at 8:40 a.m. Pacific time and arrive in Kona at 1 p.m. Hawaii time

News International revives ‘Books for School’ promotion – Brand Republic
LONDON – The Times is bringing back its ‘Books for Schools’ campaign after a four-year absence. The promotion previously ran from 1999 to 2004 and during that time more than six million books were given for free to British schools with 98% of primary

Business news – Pottstown Mercury
No comments posted. GILBERTSVILLE Congressman Charlie Dent, R-15th Dist., visited S&W Metal Products, 441 County Line Road, on Oct. 20. Ed Graefe, S&W s owner and president, gave Dent a tour of the metal fabrication shop and introduced him to

Temp: 36 F – Hays Daily News

Temp: 36 F – Hays Daily News
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Newly released e-mail records reveal a former legal counsel for Gov. Matt Blunt was fired shortly after cautioning his colleagues that their defense of e-mail deletions ran contrary to state law. The roughly 60,000 pages of e-mails

Heavy lake-effect snow hits Great Lakes states – Ledger-Enquirer
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FACTBOX-Global lenders IMF give aid in financial crisis – FXStreet.com
Nov 17 (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn told the BBC that his organisation was likely to need at least $100 billion in extra funding over the next six months in order to help countries out of the

FDA to open China offices after product scares – KXLY
BEIJING — The Food and Drug Administration will open three offices in China this week in an effort to improve the safety of exports headed to America. The new FDA offices are the first outside of the United States. Health and Human Services

Authorities seek escapee’s whereabouts – Log Cabin Democrat

Authorities seek escapee’s whereabouts – Log Cabin Democrat
The Faulkner County Sheriff’s Office and Conway police are seeking the whereabouts of a Faulkner County Jail inmate who escaped from the facility Thursday afternoon. According to Sheriff Karl Byrd, inmate Jimmy David McKinney escaped from the

Zimbabwe group receives Amnesty International award – Earthtimes
Berlin – Amnesty International honoured the pressure group Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) with its 2008 human rights prize at a ceremony held in Berlin on Sunday evening. The German chapter of the international human rights watchdog singled out the

Local Business News In Brief – Spectrum

Local Business News In Brief – Spectrum
ST. GEORGE – ERA Brokers Consolidated is proud to welcome Tamara Foster to their St. George Boulevard office. Foster has been a licensed Real Estate Agent since 2003, and obtained her Broker’s license in 2007. In Salt Lake City, she began her real

Read More: Auto Industry , Cars , Detroit , Detroit Automakers – Huffingtonpost.com
The global financial crisis is suffocating the Detroit automakers, but the problems at General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler have been festering for years–even when the mighty “Big Three” were earning billions. Aging factories, inflexible unions

BUSINESS NEWS: Bartender wins championship – Pottstown Mercury
NORTH COVENTRY Steve Gill, a bartender at the Coventry Mall T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant, earlier this week advanced to the finals of T.G.I. Friday’s World Bartender Championship. Gill will face eight finalists from around the globe for the title

Wall St faces struggle to avoid 3rd week of losses – Gulf Times
NEW YORK: Wall Street will struggle to avoid a third straight week of losses next week as investors face another flood of earnings and data, including PPI and CPI, that are likely to signal a prolonged economic slowdown. Encouraging news will

Oil falls to $58 on stock markets, data – Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) – Oil slipped to $58 a barrel on Friday as figures showing much of Europe had entered recession refocused attention on the outlook for oil demand and as U.S. stock market futures fell. Benchmark U.S. crude futures for December fell