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...At Zeeland Farm Services, a grain processor on Michigan’s western flank, farm trucks arrive with an increasingly familiar load: soyabeans free of bioengineering....
...The stalled European car market has weighed on Johnson Matthey, with a near-20 per cent fall in third-quarter underlying pre-tax profit dragging down shares in the specialty chemicals company....
...Shares in Johnson Matthey lost their lustre on Wednesday after the platinum and specialty chemicals producer reported a fall in interim revenues and offered little hope of respite for the rest of the year...
...Within construction, specialty trade contractors accounted for the bulk of the February job gain (+28,000)....
...The company also makes engine-boosting systems for cars and specialty materials such as advanced fibres and composites....
...We got out of our rented four-wheel drive and walked across a muddy bridge, for dinner at Hanuman, an elegant restaurant serving roast-duck curry and beef vindaloo and nyonya specialties; the coffee-shop...
...The melons, including a specialised variety sold to the Uzbeki community in New York, are held in a vast chilled warehouse and loaded into refrigerated trucks....
...Some said they were so stuffed from a huge breakfast of grits (a southern specialty made from corn meal), sausage, eggs and juice that they were not going to line up for lunch....
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