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...John Robinson, a fourth-generation soyabean and corn farmer in central Illinois, said more investor involvement could prove valuable....
...It’s wind [power], oil, natural gas, electric, cabotage, railroads, airports, seaports, it’s everywhere.”...
...Witnessing the old ledgers seemingly at random, letting the history and glamour just spill out, I felt like Howard Carter (or do I mean Howard Cartier?)...
...(FT) Turkish lira tumult Turkey’s currency tumbled as much as 14 per cent on Monday, following the dismissal of the country’s central bank chief over the weekend....
...linking the Bakken shale with an oil terminal in Illinois by August 5....
...Headcount has hovered near 42,000 over the past few years at the railroad, which competes with Union Pacific and Kansas City Southern in the central and western US....
...The Supreme Court in June ruled in Bristol-Myers Squibb v Superior Court that, in product liability and mass tort cases, plaintiffs can only sue companies in states where they purchase or use the product...
...He later advocated a transcontinental railroad to speed up commerce and shorten the mail service to 10 days....
...Mr Harrison is respected in the industry, having previously orchestrated turnrounds at the Illinois Central, Canadian National and Canadian Pacific railways....
...Mr Harrison’s reputation rests on his success turning around the Illinois Central, Canadian National and CP lines over a quarter century....
...After service as a cartoonist on a US Army newspaper at the end of the second world war, he studied psychology at the University of Illinois before turning to journalism....
...Mr Harrison, who led the Illinois Central and Canadian National railroads before joining CP, has long proclaimed his philosophy was universal....
...During the financial crisis, the real-time, practical manifestation of the liquidity v. solvency debate was about what financial institutions were worth saving....
...The Silicon Valley-based company will pay $3.3m in overtime back wages and $2.5m in liquidated damages to more than 350 former and current sales employees who worked at branches in California, Illinois,...
...That was followed by the era of the shorter-named from 1964-72 and the confusing years, Carter v. Reagan, Bush. v Gore, when candidates boasted the same number of letters....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
..., 5) Does encouragement from Central Banks to keep Libor low help as a defense?...
...Sir Paul has given £5m to the V&A and £3m to the British Museum’s new medieval gallery....
...In the 1984 case, Clark v. Community for Creative Non-Violence, the US Supreme Court ruled that, while speech is a protected right, overnight camping is not....
...Prior to that, he was president and chief executive of Illinois Central Railroad from 1993 until 1998, and its chief operating officer from 1989 to 1993....
...At the short end of the bond yield curve, Mr Brady thinks market participants could include Asian non-central bank money, Japanese insurance companies and Asian pension funds looking for yield....
...“Sure, Vancouver is beautiful,” says Kotkin, “but it’s also unaffordable unless you’re on an expense account and your company is paying your rent.”...
...Who: Carter Jonas, www.carterjonas.co.uk, tel: +44 (0)20 7298 1822 ………………………………………….....
...Now they are on company boards, in medicine and law.” More seriously, the baby boomer women teachers are all about to retire....
...central clearing....
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