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May 4, 2012
Four elections this weekend have the potential to reshape the European political map and show how the response to the financial crisis remains hostage to the whims of voters on both sides of the region
April 6, 2012
The city of O’Fallon, Mo., hired Michael Hurlbert as its new economic development director.
Hurlbert is joining O’Fallon from the planning, architecture and design firm of Peckham, Guyton, Albers & Viets Inc., where he was senior project manager since September 2008.
Previously, he was the city planner and economic development administrator for Creve Coeur from 2004 to […]
March 11, 2012
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 […]
February 6, 2012
European leaders maintained pressure on Greece to accept terms demanded by international lenders during a weekend of talks to avert a financial collapse.
Interim Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos struck a tentative deal with party leaders to boost economic competitiveness and extend spending cuts after euro-area finance chiefs told them an increase in the 130 […]
February 4, 2012
What Would Jesus … Deduct?
President Obama offered a new line of reasoning for hiking taxes on the rich on Thursday, saying at the National Prayer Breakfast that his policy proposals are shaped by his religious beliefs.
Obama said that as a person who has been "extraordinarily blessed," he is willing to give up some of […]
January 22, 2012
The official in charge of rescue efforts for the Costa Concordia says unregistered passengers might have been aboard the cruise liner when it struck a reef and capsized.
Civil protection chief Franco Gabrielli also told reporters Sunday that relatives of a Hungarian woman have told Italian authorities that she had telephoned them from aboard the ship […]
October 21, 2011
British police say they knew that Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid had hacked into the phone of murdered British teenager Milly Dowler nine years before the scandal exploded.
The chief constable of southern England’s Surrey Police says his force knew as far back as April 2002 that someone linked to the News of the […]
October 15, 2011
MONTREAL
October 13, 2011
While Research In Motion Ltd. struggles to contain a service outage that’s affecting tens of million of BlackBerry users around the world, its co-chief executives are most conspicuous by their absence.
Neither Jim Balsillie, who was in Dubai Monday at an industry conference when the outage began, nor Mike Lazaridis, the dual CEOs and co-chairmen who […]
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