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Plymouth company helps hospitals get cash for old equipment
Peter Robson has built a thriving business based on his simple prescription for hospitals and clinics: “Only buy what you ...
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Big ideas small office
The small operation still works with big clients such as Best Buy, Lowe's, Burger King, Macy's and Apple as well as smaller ones such as Nice Ride in Minneapolis. The firm recently attracted the attention of Fast Company magazine and biz whiz authors Dan and Chip Heath in their book "Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work." Both were interested in Hughes' ...
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Levin A template can lead to better decisions
We make decisions all the time. Do I move? Change jobs? Have kids? Eat out? Get my prerequisites at a junior college and transfer to a university to finish my degree? Get out of the market? Buy long-term care ...
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Home remodeler Whole Builders has thrived in Minneapolis by offering thrift flexibility
Left to right, Leilani Hotaling and Kaaren Howe, both owners of Minnetonka Animal Hospital, and Marcia Bethke, Mary Jane Heinen and Keith Savaire of Whole Builders in the lobby of Minnetonka Animal Hospital last week. Whole Builders carried out the renovation of the animal hospital in ...
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U.S.-South Korea trade deal produces weak first-year results
More than a year after it took effect, a highly touted trade deal with South Korea has failed to produce as expected for the United States. Exports are down, imports are up and the trade deficit with the Asian economic powerhouse has ...
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Retirement could be bummer for many boomers
The Great Recession saw unemployment rates double and a housing bust that proved far stronger and lasted much longer than anyone had expected. Through it all, retirement savings plans took a major ...
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Neurotech industry is putting its mind to video games
In the past decade, video games have helped push cutting-edge technologies such as sensor-based computing - Nintendo’s Wii - and gesture-based computing - Microsoft’s Kinect - into the mainstream. Neurotech boosters hope video games can do the same for their budding ...
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Gadgets Plyr1 gaming headset
Like other headsets in this line, the Plyr1 (pronounced "player one") is designed for casual gamers. At $180, it's more expensive than rivals, but it does offer a few ...
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Direct antibody injection boosts cancer therapy
William B. Coley , proposed in the 1890s that a substance in bacteria stimulated the immune system to attack cancer as well as infection. While Coley achieved some success in treating patients, he was opposed by close-minded ...
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Google Boss Urges Reasonable Debate On Tax
The executive chairman of Google has said there should be a "reasonable debate" about how Britain taxes multinational companies and "we'll do whatever you guys decide". Eric Schmidt was speaking at a question-and-answer session at the Hay Festival where he calmly rebuffed criticism of the amount of tax paid by the internet search giant in the UK. Last week Mr ...
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Former head of United Properties loved adventure family
Stensby, 73, the former president and CEO of Bloomington-based United Properties, died May 5 after a fall while hiking in California's Yosemite National ...
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Lee Schafer Target Corp.s strategy is to extend the Target experience
Flip through the analysts' comments that followed Target's first-quarter earnings release last week, and it looks like Target is having a tough time fending off competitors coming from all ...
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Sanimax plans to build biogas plant in South St. Paul
Dan Ostrenga, director of organic solutions for Sanimax, said the company is seeking financing, grants and permits for the project, and that construction could begin by the end of this year or early in 2014 He said the facility would charge a fee to accept waste from food processors, restaurants and other sources, and sell the methane as a replacement for natural gas. The electricity would be ...
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Fracking energy revolution begins to rock the world
FILE - In this March 29, 2013 file photo, workers tend to a well head during a hydraulic fracturing operation at an Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. gas well outside Rifle, in western Colorado. The Obama administration is proposing a rule that would require companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to publicly disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations. The new ...
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Vintage Apple 1 computer sold for $668000 at auction
BERLIN - An auctioneer says one of Apple's first computers - a functioning 1976 model - has been sold for a record 516,000 euros ($668,000).German auction house Breker said Saturday an Asian client, who asked not to be named, bought the so-called Apple 1, which the tech company's founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak built in a family garage.Breker claims it is one of only six known ...
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Herbalife suspends cult distributor
Herbalife - the controversial nutritional products company caught in a Wall Street tug-of-war - has suspended a distributor accused of running a cult-like operation in Israel. Tzachi Gozali, 46, has been accused of using humiliation, threats and sexual abuse to recruit an obedient group of followers who sell and use Herbalife’s diet protein shakes, according to a bombshell report.The ...
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Abercrombie Fitch posts ugly sales stock drops 8
Abercrombie & Fitch’s svelte customers are also starved for clothing. The pricey teen retailer - whose CEO Mike Jeffries lately has come under fire for saying he doesn’t want fat people in his stores - posted an embarrassing quarterly sales drop that was made worse by kinks in its supply chain.Abercrombie’s sales at stores open at least a year, or same-store sales, a ...
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John Rice vice chairman of General Electric talks global business
John Rice, vice chairman of General Electric Co., discusses the demands his business faces with $150 billion in revenue last year and more than 300,000 ...
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Lamprell takes the heat off by meeting in Dubai
management , here is a public relations quandary. How does a London-listed company best stage an annual general meeting as shareholders reflect on a year in which (a) their investment has slumped by more than 60%; (b) the company has issued five (count 'em) profit warnings; and (c) one of those profit warnings came just a fortnight after two executives sold substantial stakes in the ...
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Space the fiscal frontier government looks to the skies for rebalancing
Major Tim Peake will be the first Briton to go to the International Space Station, but the government has great hopes for the wider UK space industry. Photograph: Will Oliver/AFP/Getty ...
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Boden tries foreigners for size as label goes for growth
fashion brand whose fans include David and Samantha Cameron. But now the label, known for its stripy T-shirts and sunny prints, is gearing up to challenge TopShop and Gap for international profile.It already has dedicated websites and catalogues in the US, Germany, France and Austria as well as the UK, and shoppers from more than 50 countries buy the brand through those channels. Over the next ...
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Mark Carney Canadas rock-star banker faces four bars to success
Few decisions in British economic policymaking have been so acclaimed in recent years as George Osborne's appointment of Canada's rock-star central ...
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Why worrying about food miles is missing the point
Getting your lamb from New Zealand isn't hurting the planet and buying your potatoes from the other end of the country is fine. Jay Rayner says food miles are not the problem and, below, visits an ...
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Corporate tax our mainstream parties all fawned over multinationals | the big issue
How our tax inspectors fell in love with tycoons ", Nick Cohen).Britain's mainstream parties pretend to differ on the taxation of multi-nationals yet were happy with Revenue & Customs cutting sweetheart deals. They also pretend to differ on the EU, yet are committed, as are many Eurosceptic Tory MPs, to the free movement of labour within an ever expanding, albeit looser, EU.This is ...
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5-time Sprint Cup champ Jimmie Johnson seeking to make history at the Coca-Cola 600
Matt Kenseth looks on as crew members work on his car during practice for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup series Coca-Cola 600 auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Nell ...
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Mongolia coal mine sparking international interest
The government, after much deliberation, has announced that it will sell a 30% stake in the state-owned company that owns one of the largest coking coal reserves in the world, generating a flurry of interest in the industry.
Tavan Tolgoi is a huge coal mine in the Tsogttsetsii district of the southern Mongolian province of Ömnögovi. It is an extremely rural open pit coal mine that is hundreds of miles from any form of efficient transport and faces many difficulties because of this, the nearest railway, for example, is over 400 kilometers from the mine, making the transport of coal time-consuming, expensive and laborious. Read more
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