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		<title><![CDATA[William J. Griesser formerly of Arlington Heights.(Obituaries)(Obituary)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[William J. Griesser formerly of Arlington Heights Private family  graveside services for William J. Griesser, 75, of Rockford, will be  held at Elm Lawn Cemetery in Elmhurst, Ill. Born April 9, 1931, in  Chicago, the son of William C. and Lydia nee Hennig Griesser, hepassed  away...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Can your pressroom deliver?(LEARN AT WMU)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4321/is_200608/ai_n18903251]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["Mastering Flexographic Principles" is set for Aug.  23-24, in Kalamazoo, Mich. Co-sponsored by the Flexographic Technical  Association and Western Michigan University WMU, the seminar is  designed to help attendees determine whether their pressroom can deliver  what they are selling. It is geared toward customer service and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Firm-Specific Characteristics And The Timing Of Foreign Direct Investment Projects]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=312687]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper uses a proportional hazard model to study foreign direct investment by Japanese manufacturers in Europe between 1970 and 1994. Each firm's investment total is divided into a sequence of individual investment decisions, and analyze how firm-specific characteristics affect each decision. The authors found that total factor productivity is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dennis W. Archer Foundation awards $100,000 in scholarships to help students stay in college]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michigan Chronicle 09-06-2005 The Dennis W. Archer Foundation recently announced the awarding of $100,000 in scholarships for the 2005-2006 academic year to 21 students attending Wayne State University WSU and Western Michigan University WMU. This brings the total to 54 awards and $265,000 since the foundation's initial event in 2001....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dennis W. Archer Foundation awards $100,000 in scholarships to help students stay in college]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michigan Chronicle   09-06-2005   The Dennis W. Archer Foundation recently announced the awarding of $100,000  in scholarships for the 2005-2006 academic year to 21 students attending  Wayne State University WSU and Western Michigan University WMU. This  brings the total to 54 awards and $265,000...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Short-Sales Constraints and Stock Return Asymmetry: Evidence From the Chinese Stock Markets]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=168270]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese stock markets provide a great example for testing the Differences-of-Opinion theory proposed by Hong and Stein, because the difficulty of short-selling stocks in these markets fits the key assumption of the theory. Using daily data of the Shanghai and Shenzhen composite indexes from June 1995 to August 2001,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pathways to IT careers through high school CTE.(Information TECHNOLOGY UPDATE)(Brief Article)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Creating Pathways to IT Careers Project is a research  partnership of Western Michigan University WMU, the Illinois State  Board of Education ISBE and a Research-to-Practice team of business  and practitioner stakeholders.    According to the Web site based at WMU, the purpose of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Investor Preferences and Portfolio Selection: Is Diversification an Appropriate Strategy?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper analyzes the relationship between diversification and several distributional characteristics that have risk implications for stock returns. The paper develops a flexible three-parameter distribution to model the stock returns. Using data of the current 30 DJIA stocks, it shows that an investorÆs strategy of diversification depends on the measures...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Herbert W. "Skip" Grandt Jr.(Obituaries)(Obituary)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5273/is_200404/ai_n20921277]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Herbert W. "Skip" Grandt Jr. of Prospect Heights    Services for Herbert W. "Skip" Grandt Jr., 54, will be at  11 a.m. Wednesday, at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 100 S. School St., Mount  Prospect. Born May 27, 1949, in Highland Park, the son of the late...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BST Pro Mark donates inspection unit to college]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[BST Pro Mark, of Elmhurst, IL, has donated a ProScan 2000 web inspection system to Western Michigan University, which has been installed on its 23" four-color Cerutti gravure press in Kalamazoo, MI.  "With over a thousand of our systems being used for inspection on gravure presses around the world,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2003 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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