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...Pietro Franza, president of the Messina chapter of Italy’s business association Confindustria, said it would spur the much-needed investments in Sicily’s infrastructure, lowering logistics costs....
...Association....
...Just over a year ago, the National Rifle Association, riven by infighting and filing for bankruptcy, seemed to be a diminished force in America....
...Mr Biden’s energy department will also include engineers, a former diplomat and a former official of the Los Angeles chapter of the electrical workers’ union — Jennifer Jean Kropke, the new director of energy...
...As well as undertaking upgrades, consumers were also repurposing parts of their homes for work and study, said Robert Dietz, chief economist at the National Association of Home Builders....
...Steve Bratt, chief executive of the Electrical Contractors’ Association and a member of the Construction Industry Task Force, set up to co-ordinate the industry’s response to Covid-19, said that the construction...
...Under the leadership of Maggie Wilderotter, it paid Verizon $8.6bn for its landline business in 14 states followed by a $2bn purchase of AT&T’s business in Connecticut....
...In the eyes of campaigners, however, these chapters have less bite than other parts of the same trade agreements....
...And so another chapter is written in the “Brussels effect” of European rules going global....
...Products Association....
...Syrian state media reported that China had granted 800 electrical transformers to Syria, and the Syrian national basketball team has trained in China....
...Noble Francis, economics director at the Construction Products Association, agreed....
...She wasn’t interested in pure form, but impure associations....
...The answer to that question is the National Rifle Association, which runs hard-hitting campaigns against lawmakers who cross its path....
...In South Korea, too, the second anniversary of the agreement has reignited debate over its impact on the national economy....
...The threat of the cuts stems from the deal that ended last year’s crisis over the extension of the US’s national debt ceiling....
...That is akin to the National Rifle Association reacting to the massacre in Connecticut by demanding every school bristle with guns. onohana@aol.com...
...That association with the state would make us targets. So we dawdle on our patch of sand, protected by Kalashnikovs....
...Contractors – represented by BBES and the Heating and Ventilating Contractors Association – argue that a standardised rate of pay will make it easier for employers to compete in a difficult market....
...Started by an electrical contractor business in 1968, the venue has become a popular choice for those wanting to view boats on the water....
...“Most of my clients are all refinanced out,” says Dave McDonald, president of the San Diego chapter of the California Association of Mortgage Brokers....
...A study of 19 states by Connecticut Public Interest Research Group (CPIRG) found proposals for $44.8bn of stimulus spending on roads and only $11.8bn on mass transit projects....
...According to America’s National Solid Waste Management Association, there were about 27,000 private sector companies and public sector bodies operating in the business in 2001, of which only 45 per cent...
...In the elections of 2000 and 2006, the National Action Party, or PAN, long in opposition, won successive six-year terms, writes Stephen Fidler....
...He was so effectively demonised by the US right earlier this decade that he kept fairly quiet about his support of Obama, lest the association hurt his candidate....
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