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		<title>Reebok ups game with new shoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 14:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US shoe brand Reebok will step up activity in Thailand after going low profile the past six years. Vijak Sirising, the chief executive of Thai Top Sport Ltd, said the move is meant to cash in on the market opportunity in Thailand as demand rises for international-brand sport shoes, whose market now stands at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor Emanuel asks Minnesota AG to back off Accretive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 07:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More Health Care News In an undated letter to Ms. Swanson, Mr. Emanuel does not address Ms. Swanson&#8217;s allegations that the company used high-pressure tactics to collect fees from patients of a Minneapolis-based client. But he tells Ms. Swanson, “There should be no further contact between your office and the company&#8217;s clients pending the outcome [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Rosy Aerospace Forecast In Skeptical Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Military helicopters continued a long boom, and even civil aviation managed to grow a little when averaged over the last three years. Large jet orders did collapse in 2009, and business jets still haven&#8217;t recovered, but the sector as a whole did okay. Aboulafia, speaking at an open house late Tuesday at Mazak Corporation&#8217;s machine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whole Foods stops selling unsustainable seafood</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 20:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whole Foods recently became the first major North American retailer to stop selling unsustainable, or red-listed, seafood. The red listing, as determined by the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Blue Ocean Institute, indicates that the fish species is being overfished or that current fishing methods harm non-target marine life or habitats. Fish thatll no longer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adubato: Put some spring in your step with fresh communication tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spring is in the air. What better time to offer a fresh list of communication tips and tools that this column hasnt touched on before? Here goes: Be consistent in your communication. How many times have you heard someone say one thing and do another. Or, say one thing on a subject and then three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No time to waste</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Energy officials in Myanmar have warned Western companies that they must act soon or risk missing out on lucrative oil and gas investments in the rapidly reforming country. Speaking at Yangon&#8217;s first international oil and gas conference last Thursday, current and former officials of the Ministry of Energy reassured executives from multinationals including General Electric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capturing carbon from the air to help solve the climate crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 02:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I loved my conversation with Marc Gunther this week. We focused most of the discussion on his new e-book, Suck it Up, that covers the issue of climate change, geoengineering, and direct air capture of Co2. This book was a wonderful read and &#8212; at only 49 pages long &#8212; an easy read. In Suck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stocks gain 7% in March quarter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 17:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian share market finished the first quarter of 2012 around seven per cent higher, with the broad All Ordinaries index closing a few points off its eight-month high. The local bourse gained around two per cent over the week despite closing slightly lower today. The benchmark S&#038;P/ASX200 index was down 2.7 points, or 0.062 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Former UTC Manager Returns To State To Revive Plating Company In Bristol</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bristol, CT, USA Peter Mirabello had come a long way from putting himself through Central Connecticut State University — at 35, he was a commercial director in Toulouse, France, at IAE, Pratt &#038; Whitney&#8217;s commercial jet engine manufacturing partnership with European and Japanese companies. He&#8217;d been with United Technologies Corp.ever since he got his industrial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museum Curator Salary</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who are students of art, a museum curator&#8217;s job offers exciting career prospects and an attractive pay packet to go with it. From your local museum right up to the biggies in the art capitals across the world, the museum curator is the one who oversees the entire working, and picks up a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marc Faber’s ‘Rule of 25′: Allocate 25% each for gold, equities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Commodity Online): Marc Faber believes that the best thing an investor can do in the current economic crisis is to follow his Rule of 25. Unprecedented levels of borrowing will leave governments with no choice but to monetize their debts – in effect printing money – according to Marc Faber, publisher of the Gloom Boom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Apple&#8217;s &#8216;iPad&#8217; go bad in China?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hong Kong (CNN) &#8212; The world&#8217;s most valuable company is going head-to-head against a financially ailing Chinese electronics company over the right to use the iPad name in the vast market of China &#8212; and the tech giant lost round one. Round two is scheduled Wednesday as the Guangdong Higher People&#8217;s Court is expected to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News briefs: Mead Johnson&#8217;s Golsby sees pay soar to more than $10 million</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More Health Care News Mead Johnson&#8217;s Golsby sees compensation soar to more than $10 million Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. last year rewarded its top management with double-digit compensation increases, according to a proxy statement filed Tuesday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. President and CEO Stephen Golsby&#8217;s total compensation jumped 40 percent, to nearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health insurance rate cuts may be short-lived</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The partners at one of Downtown&#8217;s mid-size law firms were &#8220;astounded&#8221; late last year when their broker told them they could purchase the same coverage they had with Highmark from UPMC Health Plan at a near-55 percent savings on premiums. They&#8217;d been with Highmark for years and everyone was happy with the service, said one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ford sets retail price of new 2-litre Focus</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 06:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ford yesterday announced the new two-litre Focus will be priced between 959,000 and 1.079 million baht. The car comes with a petrol engine combining high-pressure direct fuel injection and twin independent variable camshaft timing. The Ford Focus Duratec with a 1.6-litre engine will be offered later. &#8220;The all-new Ford Focus underscores our commitment to providing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxation aspects &amp; their effect on personal finance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Union Finance Minister Mr. Pranab Mukherjee presented the Union Budget 2012-13 and has given a marginal benefit on the much awaited income tax slabs for common people. The biggest beneficiaries would be people having income between 800,001 to 999,999 per annum. They move from the 30% slab to the 20% slab! Personal Income Tax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starbucks&#8217; green scorecard: A few full cups, two half empty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starbucks’ latest self-assessment of the impact of its operations on the globe &#8212; measured in terms of energy, the environment, communities and agriculture &#8212; reflects healthy progress, moderated by a dash of frustration on some challenging fronts. Call it: A few full cups and a couple half empty. The good news is big gains on [...]]]></description>
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