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...Forty US states and the District of Columbia are in talks with the LTL subsidiary for a potential settlement of consumer protection claims, they said in a filing....
...The firm helped J&J create a limited liability company in Texas, forming the subsidiary that would take on the baby talc claims....
...From GPS readings, Steffen realised the ice beneath Swiss Camp was sliding toward the sea far more rapidly than expected, thanks to meltwater lubricating its movement against the bedrock....
...Yet the latest projections are far less than what is needed at 15,000 circuit miles, according to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation....
...Only one terminal is under construction in Canada, a Royal Dutch Shell-backed project in British Columbia known as LNG Canada....
...In addition to cargoes from Europe, petrol may flow from Texas via the massive Colonial Pipeline or from a refinery in Atlantic Canada....
...Marubeni also owns Columbia Grain, another crop merchant with silos in the Midwest....
...“We think a deepwater port is the most efficient, effective, safe way to get the Texas producers’ oil to market,” says Corey Prologo, Trafigura’s director of North American oil trading....
...The ministry of education limits class sizes and the ability of schools to open regional subsidiaries....
...The Chicago-based firm, founded by Don Wilson, said Thursday it had hired 10 employees who formerly worked for Texas-based Martin Energy Trading to lead a push into crude oil, refined petroleum fuels, natural...
...The remaining 20 per cent is controlled by Borealis, the infrastructure subsidiary of Canadian pension fund Omers, and GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund....
...“Oncor is an excellent fit for Berkshire Hathaway, and we are pleased to make another long-term investment in Texas — when we invest in Texas, we invest big!” said Mr Buffett....
...Going to space was science fiction when I grew up in Columbia, South Carolina....
...His father, Frank Price, as a head of Columbia Pictures, oversaw classics such as Kramer vs Kramer and Tootsie....
...The writer is a professor of history at Columbia University...
...He launched the Jynwel Foundation and committed $50m to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, which had diagnosed him as having an infection, not cancer....
...Last week, the spot price of Light Louisiana Sweet crude on the US Gulf of Mexico coast was $61 per barrel — more than the price of $59.09 for Dated Brent from the North Sea, according to Argus Media....
...People are thinly spread in a state like Texas and mostly shrug if a few little earthquakes rattle the crockery. Even in New York, landowners hold mineral rights....
...Robert Willens, a tax adviser and professor of taxation at Columbia Business School says some pharmaceutical companies are now “under pressure” to do carry out tax inversion deals....
...The District of Columbia court backed the arguments of the industry and 15 states, led by Texas, that the limits set by the EPA for emissions of sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, pollutants that cause...
...After expanding to the US in 1997, Fogo de Chão now has more than half of its 25 restaurants in the US and has moved its headquarters to Dallas, Texas....
...Texas-based EFH is one of the companies affected – particularly through its subsidiary Luminant, which operates coal-fired and nuclear power plants....
...Preceding AmTech (now Gleacher & Co.), Mr Schreiner was co-founder/portfolio manager at MS Capital Management, LLC, a Phoenix-based hedge fund....
...A few more seasoned participants — which the mainstream media still hasn’t caught up on in detail — are EWT LLC, a subsidiary of Madison Tyler Holdings, which specialises in cross-asset arbitrage and happens...
...In other cases, such as the planned sales of Bank of America’s First Republic or Columbia asset management subsidiaries, firms have been told the plan is to sell only to a strategic buyer....
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