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		<title><![CDATA[Fluor Corporation Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. We'll go first to Jamie Cook with Credit Suisse. Jamie Cook - Credit Suisse You guys talked about the Greater Gabbard project, I'm wondering how much revenue you have left to burn through on that project and how much of that's impacting your EPS in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:11:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can the Elephant Stomp on the Gecko, Farmers and Progressive?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insurers that "direct" market their auto and home insurance products to consumers through television ads, thus cutting out insurance agents, are doing quite nicely in the U.S. even during the recession. All you need to see is the success of GEICO's "Gecko." But the lovable lizard could soon find itself...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:05:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[African nations strike landmark ivory trade ban]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE HAGUE AFP &#8212; A UN forum on Thursday approved a landmark nine-year ban on international ivory trade to stem a surge in poaching that has killed up to 20,000 elephants per year.  The ban will go into effect after the one-off sale by four southern African nations of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['Elephants' hope to have rivals packing their trunks]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABIDJAN AFP &#8212; Of all of Africa's four debutantes at the World Cup, Ivory Coast could be the side best placed to spring a shock.  The Ivorians pulled off a dramatic upset in qualifying by eliminating four-time finalists Cameroon and as a result will arrive in Germany knowing that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Hunting for 'elephants' in Africa's oil sector]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200506/ai_n14754329]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[MAPUTO AFP &#8212; Africa is being eyed anew for potential "elephants" in the oil and gas sector, riding on the back of soaring oil prices, the depletion of resources elsewhere and newfound stability in many countries, experts say.  Governments on the continent are opening up and even those which...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Animal deaths highlight lack of oversight at zoos]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The death of a zoo animal rarely makes national headlines. And when it does, the animal is mourned by zoo officials and visitors as if it were an elderly friend.   It's when a zoo has a series of deaths in a short period, as has happened at Chicago's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[EU trade czar hopes U.S. talks gear up quickly]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's hard to imagine the dapper Peter Mandelson swimming for his life into the middle of a lake on the Serengeti in Africa while an enraged elephant threw his clothes about on the water's shore.  "That was my first experience getting myself out of some nasty scrapes," said Mandelson,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mays' follies   So Doug Mays thinks we won't need to raise taxes because the economy will improve so much in 2005 that the school funding crisis will just fade away.     He made that statement after the Kansas Supreme Court ruling and before the opening...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people say the pen is mightier than the sword, and this, man proved it Called the "father of American caricature," this cartoonist; used his drawings to oust corrupt officials from office, drum up support for the Union during the Civil War, and get Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses Grant, and others...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Paper maker smells money in elephant dung fit for a president]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PINNAWELA, Sri Lanka AFP ? A group of enterprising Sri Lankans are taking their recycling business to jumbo heights -- by turning elephant dung into paper fit for use even by US President George W. Bush.  Through their company Maximus, named after their chief supplier "elephas maximus", the group's...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Thai elephant to get artificial limb]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BANGKOK, AFP ? A Thai elephant who drew sympathy from across the world after losing a foot in a landmine blast five years ago, is to get a new artificial limb.  Motala, a 43-year-old female, has become the country's most celebrated elephant since being injured while trekking in the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Track Data Announces Addition of ElephantX for Trade Executions Through Its myTrack Service]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2001_August_15/ai_77225515]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Business Editors  NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Aug. 15, 2001  Track Data Corporation (Nasdaq-NMS: TRAC) today announced that it has added Elephant eXpress as another direct routing destination for stock trades placed through myTrack, its Internet-based online trading and market data service.  "Elephant eXpress is like an ECN for listed...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Trading Tensions.(relationship on international trade between the United States and the European Union)(Brief Article)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What to do when elephants Fight?     When elephants fight, the ground shakes and lesser animals take  cover.     Assume the United States and the European Union are roughly equal  elephants in the world of trade, and it clearly matters that their...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2001 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commencement at McGill - McGill University, Montreal, Canada - Charles Krauthammer's honorary degree acceptance speech Jun 14, 1993 - Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LET ME BEGIN by saying how deeply honored I am by the honorary degree you have conferred upon me by the invitation to deliver the commencement address at a university for which I have such respect and affection.  And let me apologize for speaking entirely in English, my French...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 1993 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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