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...The states’ investigation, which was led by Oregon and Nebraska, trained a spotlight on to one of the most valuable types of data that the search giant collects in order to target its advertising....
...But his career dates to the 1960s, when as a Smith Barney broker covering Nebraska and Iowa, he helped an Omaha client named Warren Buffett build a position in American Express....
...Describing them as the “fabric” of local community, Google said it would invest in new data-centre capacity in Nebraska, South Carolina, Virginia, Nevada and Texas....
...in Nebraska, South Carolina, Virginia, Nevada and Texas....
...Last year Berkshire acquired Precision Castparts, a US engineering group, for $32bn in the largest acquisition his Nebraska-based holding company has yet made....
...Ben Sasse of Nebraska pleaded: “Please just stop. This isn’t normal and it’s beneath the dignity of your office.”...
...Several closures of nuclear plants for largely economic reasons have been announced in the past few years, including Kewaunee in Wisconsin, Fort Calhoun in Nebraska and Vermont Yankee in Vermont....
...Ms Milligan, former dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is the longest-serving director and has been on the board since 1992....
...of Investigation and filed in a Nebraska court....
...Elderly Athenians were left in the lurch, waiting outside branches of the National Bank of Greece....
...Marubeni bet with the acquisition of Gavilon, which is based in Omaha, Nebraska, that China would become a long-term importer of corn, in the process reshaping the global agricultural market....
...Heinz has also outperformed Berkshire itself over the past decade, a relatively poor period for the Oracle of Omaha....
...Thousands travel to Omaha, Nebraska each year to hear him elaborate at the conglomerate’s annual meeting....
...ADM said it lost money in ethanol production during the past quarter as corn prices surged earlier this year and lost $26m in its bioenergy business, down from profits of $153m in the same quarter of last...
...Moderate droughts in Illinois, Nebraska and Iowa were upgraded to severe in the past week. (Reuters)....
...The deal brings together Marubeni’s network of 60 US grain-loaders, concentrated near the Canadian border, with Gavilon’s 140, mostly in Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska....
...Morgan Stanley has been hired to advise the Omaha, Nebraska, company on possible alternatives, the person close to the company said....
...prairies of Nebraska....
...Gavilon, based in Omaha, Nebraska, the heart of the world’s surplus grain supply, has so far focused on its home market, building the infrastructure to trade corn, soyabeans and wheat....
...ConAgra, based in Omaha, Nebraska, will pay Gavilon $4.3m to resolve potential liability in the case....
...Once the sale is completed, which the companies expected to occur within 60 days, the ConAgra Trade Group will be renamed Gavilon LLC. It will remain based in Omaha, Nebraska....
...“In 2006 …everything went right in insurance – really right,” said the Nebraska-based billionaire investor. “Our managers …simply shot the lights out....
...converted into shares of the new company....
...In such an environment, imagine the options for John McCain, the Republican senator from Arizona, if he does not win the 2008 Republican nomination, and former Democratic senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska,...
...In most of the Republican heartland of America there is no problem. In Nebraska the median home is worth just 2.6 times the median household income....
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