Posts Tagged ‘ US ’

Canadian Tourism Commission proud to bring international torchbearers to the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Torch Relay VANCOUVER, March 7 /CNW/ – A wheelchair basketball star from Japan and a US Paralympic skiing hopeful will join with Canadians to help the Paralympic Flame along its journey to Vancouver as we count down to the 2010 Paralympic Winter...
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div h1Coal bed methane production: success depends on location/h1 strongWhile coal bed methane has a promising future in the Far East, things look far less certain in other locations. Sean Ottewell reports./strongpCoal bed methane (CBM) or coal seam gas (CSG) is natural gas that is extracted from coal...
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From Wall Street to Main Street: The King Report Goes Public The King Report, dubbed as a must read, by the most brilliant minds in financial institutions delivers an insightful forecast on how political and economic events may either shake or shape up financial markets. Once available only in the boardroom of the most...
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Perry Pulling Away from Hutchison as Election Day Approaches March 1, 2010 /EIN PRESSWIRE/ Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s slim gubernatorial hopes may ride on the success of a Tea Party candidate in Tuesday’s Texas primary. Incumbent Gov. Rick Perry can avoid a runoff with Hutchison if he manages to secure 50% of the vote in the...
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2 22, 2010 22:18 Tomohiro Ootsuki, Nikkei Electronics Masashi Imamura, president of Personal Imaging and Sound Business Group of Sony, and a mock-up of the new mirror-less camera This time, only the following mock-ups were exhibited. The details will probably be announced at photokina, an exhibition that will take place Sept 21 to 26, 2010, in Germany. I...
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February 23, 2010 /EIN PRESSWIRE/ California solar energy giant BrightSource has been conditionally granted a $1.4 billion stimulus loan from the US government to build a nearly 400-megawatt solar power complex in the Mojave Desert. BrightSource says that during the construction phase of the project 1,000 jobs would be created, 86 of which would become...
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February 22, 2010 /EIN PRESSWIRE/ The US Army, needing to destroy its remaining stockpiles of chemical weapons, plans to simply blow some of them up, the AP reports. Originally, Congress ordered that the stockpiles of 125,000 chemical weapons still remaining from the Cold War era be destroyed by 1994, but that deadline was extended to...
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February 22, 2010 /EIN PRESSWIRE/ An internal Toyota tells how the automaker saved more than $100 million by negotiating with US federal regulators to stop an investigation into accelerator complaints in exchange for a product recall in September 2007, the AP reports. The document adds to the question of whether Toyota ignored complaints of acceleration...
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Enterprise Digital Asset Management supplier celum achieves 30% growth in 2009 celum’s latest product generation, celum IMAGINE version IV.7, will be released at this years’ celumsummit in Vienna on 21 April 2010. February 23 2010 – celum, a leading European supplier of products to automate marketing, communications and sales processes, announced today that 2009 revenue...
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Last week, General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz repeated his long-held opinion that hybrid gas-electric cars have a limited market and will not be profitable for the company. Yet, he believes GM will be forced to make more hybrids because of tougher fuel efficiency regulations. This begs the question: What hybrids should...
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Partsbase Announces Successful Release of Upgraded Government Research ToolPartsBase, the fastest growing aviation, aerospace and defense e-commerce marketplace, has released its upgraded Government Research Tool which can give companies a competitive edge when they are bidding on US Government Contracts. Boca Raton, FL February 18, 2010 — Partsbase, Inc., with its principle location in...
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BAE Systems Introduces New Armor Protected, High Mobility Caiman Multi-Theater Vehicle Smart, Cost-Effective MRAP Solution Provides Increased Interior Capacity, Tactical Mobility and Survivability for Troops in Afghanistan You need Flash to see the Feature Video The cost-effective Caiman MTV features a wider wheel base and more robust independent suspension and powertrain systems to navigate...
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