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Sudan dreams of becoming global sugar player
ReutersNEAR SOFIYA, Sudan (Reuters) - In a hangar-shaped factory hall in central Sudan a dozen workers rush to pack refined white sugar gushing from a funnel into paper bags to be loaded on three trucks parked outside. Next year, the management at Kenana...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Brazil, Biofuels, International Monetary Fund, University of Oxford
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Geneva's Western Avenue School students work in garden
Each time the 300 students at Western Avenue School in Geneva pass their school this summer, they'll see the pumpkins and gourds they planted in the front yard last week grow a little larger. About 50 families have signed up to keep the gardens tended...
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Avon Factory Adding Workers
The Hartford CourantAn Avon factory that makes reflective material for clothing, adhesives and traffic signs has built a 50,000-square-foot expansion less than two years after it was bought by a German company. The factory, which had been known as Reflexite before the...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Employees, Environmental Issues, Companies and Corporations, Career and Workplace
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New reasons to plant in a greenhouse
Charlotte ObserverCHARLOTTE, N.C. Gardeners, if you've ever been tempted to give Mother Nature a little nudge, consider installing a greenhouse. The rationale behind such an investment is simple. Greenhouses give gardeners control over the environment, regardless of...Tags: Gardening, Hobbies, Environmental Issues, Charlotte, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Bangladesh panel to recommend life in prison over building collapse
ReutersBy Serajul Quadir DHAKA, May 21 (Reuters) - A committee investigating a deadly collapse of a building housing garment factories in Bangladesh will recommend that nine people detained in connection with the disaster be sentenced to life in prison, the...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Bangladesh, Punishment, Dhaka (Bangladesh), Prisons
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Southern Co replaces executives in wake of Kemper cost overrun
ReutersHOUSTON, May 20 (Reuters) - Southern Co's smallest utility unit, Mississippi Power, named a new president on Monday in response to pressure from state regulators concerned about cost overruns at a controversial coal-gasification plant under construction...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Corporate Officers, Mississippi Power Company, Mining, Companies and Corporations
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New church holds first worship service in Ashland
Republican & Herald, Pottsville, Pa.The New Beginning Church opened its doors Sunday for its first worship service. More than 30 people attended the first service at 11 a.m. in the storefront church at 919 Centre St. Many Ashland residents remember the building as the former Herwick's...Tags: Christianity, Religion and Belief, Roman Catholicism
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Pepsi to march in, as foreign troops leave Afghanistan
ReutersKABUL, May 20 (Reuters) - PepsiCo will open its first plant in Afghanistan in 2014, its Afghan partner said on Monday, the same year foreign troops complete their withdrawal from the country after 13 years of war. "It will go on stream in 2014," Hamed...Tags: Pakistan, Hamid Karzai, NATO, Coca-Cola Co., Kabul (Afghanistan)
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COLUMN-Koch's unsightly coke mountain: Kemp
ReutersBy John Kemp LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - Petroleum coke piled up along the banks of the Detroit River has sparked a storm of protest from local residents and environmental campaigners, who claim they are just one more problem associated with the...Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Petroleum Industry, Keystone XL Pipeline, Saudi Arabia, Heavy Engineering
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Al-Abdulkarim: Bright prospects for graduates of local universities
Arab News, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaModern Products Company, a joint venture with Procter & Gamble, has been ranked in the top three of the "Best Saudi Company to Work" for 2011 listing for the Private-Production and Manufacturing Sector category, according to Fahad Abdullah Al-Abdulkarim,...Tags: Employees, Employment, Companies and Corporations, Invention and Innovation, Consumers
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Proposal gives Scott Walker administration more power to sell state property
Milwaukee Journal SentinelGov. Scott Walker's administration would gain broad authority to sell state property -- including prisons, highways, heating plants and university dormitories -- under a plan legislators will take up Tuesday. Proceeds would be used to chip away at the...Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Alberta Darling, Jon Richards, Students, Parties and Movements
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Minnesota's struggling ethanol makers hope to snap back this year
Star TribuneFarmer Dwayne Ehlert remembers the moment last August when he delivered a truckload of corn to an ethanol plant here and sold it for a record $8.16 a bushel. "I knew it was good for me, and I knew it wasn't good for �anyone else," said Ehlert,...Tags: Business Enterprises, Valero LP, Petroleum Industry, Green Plains Renewable Energy Incorporated, Dwayne Johnson
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