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Surging materials stocks becoming a hot commodity
Investors are getting back to basics. Rising demand for essentials such as roads and infrastructure by the world's emerging countries has transformed the providers of basic materials into hot tickets. Commodity prices are rapidly increasing. Once...Tags: Monsanto Company, Economy, Business and Finance, Personal Finance, Allegheny Technologies Inc., Business
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Dow Chemical tries to cool its costs
Tribune Media Services columnistQ: Would you please comment on Dow Chemical Co.? We've been pleased with this holding but the stock has experienced some recent volatility. -- E.P., Mt. Dora, Fla. A: The world's second-largest chemical company, behind Germany's BASF AG, is cinching its...Tags: Apple Inc., Economy, Business and Finance, Entertainment, Johnson & Johnson Inc., Saudi Arabia
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Penalty Box: Dow Chemical Co.
Who's in it: The Dow Chemical Co. Who put it there: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For what: Pollution law violations at the company's latex and Styrofoam insulation plant in Ledyard. The EPA said the plant failed to repair leaking valves that...Tags: Regional Authority, Environmental Politics, Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Issues
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Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation
Times Staff WritersEbocha, Nigeria — Justice Eta, 14 months old, held out his tiny thumb. An ink spot certified that he had been immunized against polio and measles, thanks to a vaccination drive supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But polio is not the...Tags: Ford Motor Co., Abbott Laboratories, Government, Economy, Business and Finance, Entertainment
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End of the book?
Worlds shudder and collapse all the time. There's no news in that. Just ask the Assyrians, the last emperor of the Han Dynasty, the final Romanoff or Napoleon -- or Bernard Madoff. But when it seems to be happening to your world, well, that's a...Tags: Entertainment, Gaming, Citigroup Incorporated, Bernard Madoff, Jackie Gleason
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EPA official ousted while fighting Dow
Tribune reporterSAGINAW, Mich.—The battle over dioxin contamination in this economically stressed region had been raging for years when a top Bush administration official turned up the pressure on Dow Chemical to clean it up. On Thursday, following months of...Tags: Government, Companies and Corporations, Activism, University of Michigan, Forests
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"White Protestant Nation," by Allan J. Lichtman
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning history, "Freedom From Fear," an account spanning the Great Depression and World War II, David M. Kennedy takes note of a special session of Congress called by Franklin Roosevelt in late 1937, two years after the passage of...Tags: Richard Nixon, Ku Klux Klan, Jesus Christ, Democratic Party, World War II (1939-1945)
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City Park's Ferris Wheel Coming Back to Life
Students from Christian Brothers School will be the first to welcome the return of a Ferris wheel at City Park. The attraction at the park's amusement area has been out of service since Hurricane Katrina, and it will come back to life during a grand...
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