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ST. LOUIS • Funeral services are pending for Rick Desloge, who spent nearly three decades as a journalist with the St. Louis Business Journal.
The Business Journal says Desloge died Monday, about a year after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was 63.
Desloge began at the Business Journal in 1984 and continued working until recently. […]

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Organizers say Beijing has forced the cancellation of a conference on legal protection for private industry amid heightened sensitivity over the country’s biggest political scandal in years.
A leading Beijing lawyer said legal authorities in the capital called him Saturday to demand it be called off. The conference had been scheduled for Saturday and Sunday in […]

Spanish and German government bonds are signaling the respite in the euro-region

Aegion Corp. said Thursday that a subsidiary, United Pipeline Systems, had entered a joint venture with Special Technical Services LLC to provide pipeline-lining services in the Middle East.
United Pipeline owns 51 percent of the joint venture, Aegion said. The venture, established in Oman, will provide pipeline, piping and flow line high-density polyethylene lining services in […]

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Monsanto Co. and Dow Chemical Co. will get speedier government reviews for some of their newest genetically modified crops under a plan to cut approval times in half, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
Monsanto soybeans that tolerate applications of the herbicide dicamba and a Dow soybean engineered to tolerate 2,4-D are among a dozen petitions […]

Chinese Finance Minister Xie Xuren said the nation may expand property-tax trials, as the government prolongs efforts to cool the real-estate market, make housing affordable and limit asset bubbles.
Taxes can guide housing demand, Xie said at a press briefing in Beijing today during the annual meeting of the National People

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against agricultural biotechnology giant Monsanto Co. that sought to protect organic farmers from litigation if their fields were to become contaminated by genetically altered seed.
Federal judge Naomi Buchwald of the Southern District of New York ruled last week that the plaintiffs, which include more than 80 agricultural organizations […]

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