First Takeaway: After a powerful Election Day rally, stocks are heading for a quieter day today in the wake of Barack Obama's resounding victory. Asian markets were sharply higher: Tokyo closed up 4.4 percent, Hong Kong was up 3.2 percent, and Singapore ended 2.6 percent....
For years, the mantra at Goldman Sachs has been that the firm can manage conflicts. Conflicts, so the thinking went, were not a necessarily bad thing, because it represented more business for the firm. The latest reported conflict, however, is not...
Having your firm named after the three-headed, serpent-tailed watchdog at the gates of hell doesn't make it easy to adopt a touch-feely approach, but Cerberus Capital Management is trying anyway. The private equity firm, which owns 80.1 percent of Chrysler, is making an unusual public relations push to persuade...
EL FASHER, Sudan -- Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the president of Sudan who has been accused of genocide, is not especially well known for his dance moves. But on Wednesday, in front of tens of thousands of people packed into what appeared to be a mandatory pep rally...
Byline: JESSICA JEFFREY Nancy is the only daughter of a rich Bristol Merchant sent away to Jamaica where she is shocked to realize that her father's great wealth is in fact based on the sugar cane plantations worked by slaves. She befriends a slave girl Minerva and both...
Westy: How long does it take for a Boy Scout to screw in a light bulb? Chubb: I dunno. Westy: About a week if he gives it a GOOD TURN DAILY! -$10 TO ANTHONY ROSLEVICH, HAZLETON, PA. Tom Swiftie: "Don't light those fireworks!" Tom exploded. Jeffrey Davis, Lansing, Mich. Andrew:...
Ethan Hawke and Jim Jarmusch at NYC nightspot The Cabana at the Maritime Hotel for the party following the premiere of Broken Flowers, hosted by Focus Features David Yurman, and Interview [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jeffrey Wright the Broken Flowers party. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mercedes-Benz's...
Byline: Jeffrey Sparshott, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Sugar has been a sweet business for U.S. cane growers and beet farmers, who are sheltered from foreign competition by regulations that severely restrict imports. But American farmers and refiners in the sweetener industry think ...
Surely Jeffrey Foucault has misplaced a middle name, so ably do his husky, weatherbeaten drawl and guitar-picking emulate the sound and style of careworn singer-songwriters such as Willis Allan Ramsey and Kelly Joe Phelps. This follow-up to his 2001 debut Miles from the Lightning is stuffed with echoes of both...
A Unitarian Universalist scientists from Wyoming finds common ground with Muslims in Central Asia in the battle against a common adversry: the locust. Lessons from the interdependent web of grain and grasshoppers GRASS UNITHS HUMANKIND. IN THE MOST FUNDAmental sense, the staple foods of the world are based on grasses....
Disease transmission forecasts can help minimize human and domestic animal health risks by indicating where disease control and prevention efforts should be focused. For disease systems in which weather-related variables affect pathogen proliferation, dispersal, or transmission, the potential for disease forecasting exists. We present a seasonal forecast of St. Louis...
Byline: Jeffrey Sparshott, THE WASHINGTON TIMES The Bush administration filed a case at the World Trade Organization yesterday over Mexican taxes on soft drinks amid criticism from Democrats that the White House does too little to enforce trade agreements. U.S. Trade...
ROBERTO J. GONZALEZ. University of Texas Press, Austin, 2001. 360 pp., 23 b&w illus., 4 line drawings, 2 maps, 9 tables, 5 appendices, notes, references. $50.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. The ethnographic description in this book is timely and original, a competent...
An HBO Films presentation of a Good Machine production in association with Cane/Gabay Prods. Produced by Declan Baldwin. Executive producers, Ross Katz, Anne Carey, Ted Hope. Co-executive producers, Peter Cane, Roy Gabay. Directed by Moises Kaufman. Screenplay, Kaufman and the members...
We modeled surface wetness at high resolution, using a dynamic hydrology model, to predict flood and swamp water mosquito abundances. Historical meteorologic data, as well as topographic, soil, and vegetation data, were used to model surface wetness and identify potential fresh and swamp water breeding habitats in two northern New...
Pliskin Realty & Development, Inc. announced the formation of a new wholly-owned subsidiary providing property management services for retail and multifamily residential real estate properties. The subsidiary, Zenith Management, LLC, will be base in Cane Place N.Y. and will manage properties nationwide. Since its formation, Zenith has already....
Mar. 12--Global Marine has elected Carroll W. Suggs to its board of directors. Suggs is chairman, president and chief executive officer of Petroleum Helicopters. Imperial Sugar Co. has promoted Brian Harrison to vice president, cane operations. Dr. S. Jeffrey...
The agricultural sector of most countries is a complex web of support prices for some crops, low procurement prices for others, trade restrictions, subsidies for inputs, and minimum wages for hired labor. The interactions within this policy regime determine a farmer's input use and cropping patterns, and therefore the private...
Bobs Candies, Inc. 1315 West Oakridge Drive Albany, Georgia 31707 U.S.A. Telephone: (229) 430-8300 Toll Free: (800) 569-4033 Fax: (229) 430-8331 Web site: http://www.bobscandies.com Private Company Incorporated: 1922 as Famous Candy Company Employees: 410 Sales: $41.3 million (2004) NAIC:...
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