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...US railroads including Union Pacific, the largest, have also recorded big falls in profits for the fourth quarter....
...However, Canadian Pacific, one of Canada’s two big railroads, announced on Tuesday that its drivers had given notice of their intention to strike from February 15 if pay negotiations were unsuccessful....
...Productivity problem Jon Slangerup, chief executive of the Port of Long Beach, the public sector body that owns the port land, says the slowdown by the International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union — which...
...Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union — the dockers’ union at all the coast’s ports — have been working since July without a contract....
...I still doubt that this extends to the Baltic states, which in theory “benefit” from protection under Nato’s Article V defence clause....
...Union Pacific advanced 3.36 per cent to $174.17 after posting its first rise in volumes for six quarters, helped by more shipments of agriculture, cars and industrial goods....
...Twickenham clash England play an autumn international series rugby union match against New Zealand at Twickenham. Records in sight Guinness World Records Day is marked....
...The American financier made his name in the City of London in the 1980s by buying debt in struggling companies, taking on groups such as Eurotunnel, Euro Disney and Heron International, the property group...
...In the western US, the two big railroads – Union Pacific and BNSF – have invested heavily in the region’s booming oil production....
...“In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you....
...There were no plans to allow foreign airlines to compete on the lucrative Pacific route dominated by Qantas and UAL until Virgin Blue’s V Australia has had a chance to establish itself on the US-Australian...
...We think GDP growth is likely to be limited to around 1.0 per cent in 2010, rising to around 1.6 per cent in 2011 Andrew Goodwin, Oxford Economics Ltd The recovery is going to be slow and patchy....
...Over the past three weeks, the four biggest US-based operators – Union Pacific, BNSF, CSX and Norfolk Southern – all reported improved operating profits for the quarter compared with 2007, in spite of sharp...
...But it is likely corporations were already bringing some funds back, and were liquidating longer-term assets to strengthen the parent company’s financial position, even before the IRS move....
...The 13 companies under investigation are suspected of having formed a cartel in 2004 to fix the price of their international air freight forwarding services to customers....
...The once-proud fleet based at Belgrade Nikola Tesla International Airport has shrivelled to less than half its former size....
...The IPOs would be likely to precede any such union....
...Hoffman-LaRoche Ltd. v Empagran that US antitrust laws do not extend to redress injuries occurring outside the US unless they relate to harm within the US....
...The bright minds at the Christian Democratic Union have come up with some creative ideas to help her become Germany’s eighth postwar chancellor....
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