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...Robyn Copeland, a 68-year-old librarian and Trump supporter from the suburbs of Des Moines, Iowa, said she “used to listen to Rush Limbaugh all the time”....
...The arrangement had precedent in the Iowa Electronic Markets, at the University of Iowa, which got its no-action letter in 1992....
...She added that the US did not have a “clean legal authority” to block foreign-owned social media apps because of restrictions on the president regulating personal communications....
...The firm also promoted seven members of its financial communications and capital markets teams. Read the full list here. Smart reads How do you solve a problem like Elon Musk?...
...Shares in Iowa-based Rockwell climbed 2.2 per cent to $130.74 on Tuesday, giving the company a market value of $21.2bn. It has net debt of roughly $7bn. Shares in UTC rose 2.9 per cent....
...Karl Setzer of MaxYield Co-operative, an Iowa grain company, says farmers used to like personal visits from grain merchants. “The majority of farmers today don’t want that,” Mr Setzer says....
...On Monday, Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican and Senate judiciary chairman, called for a “robust review” of the proposed merger and promised to hold a hearing on it....
...“Talk radio is a rifle shot form of communication with the base of the Republican party....
...Analysts say that the first of the primaries — in Iowa and New Hampshire, which adjoins Mr Sanders’ home state — will be critical in shaping the contest....
...When Donald Trump evicted a Latino reporter from a press conference in Iowa, the presidential hopeful fuelled fears that his perceived war on Hispanics is damaging the Republican party’s chances of reclaiming...
...In a good team, communication will happen naturally, they say....
...Windstream said its board of directors had received a favourable private letter ruling from the Internal Revenue Service, although it will still require regulatory approval....
...But they include another overt White House attempt to influence the Federal Communications Commission, the independent telecoms regulator....
...AT&T fell 2 per cent over the month to $34.96 while Windstream declined 1 per cent to $11.30....
...The Federal Communications Commission will use the findings in the report on fixed broadband service to call for improvements from chief executives of underperforming companies....
...After two legal defeats, the Federal Communications Commission is trying once again to put together rules on net neutrality....
...It had been used by the Soviets to intercept communications between Europe and America during the cold war....
...The decision will take Time, the news weekly created by Henry Luce in 1923, out of the company that bears its name, 24 years after Time Inc merged with Steve Ross’s Warner Communications....
...The group was the fruit of a $14bn merger in 1989 between Time Inc, home to hallowed magazine brands such as Time, and Warner Communications, the entertainment empire Steve Ross built from a funeral parlour...
...Nine decades to the week after Henry Luce and Briton Haddon put out the first issue of Time and 24 years since Time Inc’s merger with Warner Communications, Time Warner announced plans to spin the magazine...
...(FT Beyondbrics) - AV alumni John McDermott has a Mitt-less trip to Iowa. (FT World blog) - The UK should reintroduce LVR rules, says Lord O’Donnell....
...Republicans, led by Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, have also run a high-profile campaign questioning the reasons for the initial approval....
...It said that he would forge communications between the bank and the auditor routinely, as well as other correspondence....
...After the quadrennial US election ritual of polls, caucuses and primaries began in Iowa on Tuesday, filling television, tablet and smartphone screens with instant punditry, one group of executives should...
...Charles Grassley, the Iowa senator, is a prominent critic of the deal and blocking consideration of two FCC nominees over the agency’s refusal to provide information on why it fast-tracked the project....
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