09/02/2008
HD Supplies of San Diego expands with 175,000-square-foot warehouse lease (The Business Journal of Phoenix)
One of the Phoenix area's largest lease deals this year was signed in recent days by construction and maintenance product distributor HD Supplies Facilities Maintenance. The San Diego company needed to expand its local warehouse space and leased nearly 175,000 square feet in the Buckeye Logistics Center in Phoenix.
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09/04/2008
Highway report updated (The Findlay Courier)
The following is the state Department of Transportation's highway construction and maintenance report for this week:
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08/26/2008
Jacobs Receives Design, Construction, and Maintenance Support Contract from MPact (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today that it received a contract to provide detailed design, construction, and maintenance support to MPact for the construction of a $1.1 billion extension to the light rail Metrolink system in Manchester, U.K.
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09/07/2008
Sept. 9 primary, County Board, District 3: Reitmeier says the timing is right (Crookston Daily Times)
When Gerald "Jerry" Reitmeier thought about running for a seat on the Polk County Board of Commissioners back in the 1980s, he was in the midst of a busy life raising two children with his wife, Suzanne, and running his own business. There was simply no time to devote to such an undertaking.
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09/06/2008
Contracting firms take Jeddah citizens for a ride (Zawya)
The extremely slow progress of work in a large number of the city's districts, particularly during the summer break and with the onset of Ramadan, has made matters difficult for motorists and pedestrians alike.
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09/05/2008
Cable Stripping Tool combines 2 rotary cuts with 1spiral cut. (ThomasNet)
With triple action stripping of rotary, longitudinal, and spiral cutting abilities, Model 1903 is designed with a hook on end of cable guide, which is used to grab jacket and start pulling it from cable. Including interchangeable small and large cable guides, it can strip cable over full range from 0.18-1.57 in. in dia. Ergonomic, lightweight, and compact tool features pocket at base to store ...
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09/05/2008
City seeks funds for intersections (Homer News)
[Homer officials want to proceed with a plan to install either traffic signals or roundabouts at six intersections along Pioneer Avenue and the Sterling Highway and are asking the state for help.
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09/05/2008
Incentives Needed to Maintain Reduced Gas Consumption (Austinist)
Gunnar/Flickr There was an interesting editorial in yesterday's Washington Post, which was reprinted in the Statesman. Basically, the price of oil has fallen dramatically in the last few weeks and gas prices are coming down as a result. This is good new for the stock market and Hummer drivers, but it threatens to wipe out recent decreases in domestic consumption of gasoline (U.S. ...
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09/05/2008
Gettysburg Battle Site Revamps To Attract Tourists (Fast Company Magazine)
Rusty weapons. Frayed carpet dotted with greasy chewing-gum spots. Ceiling tiles yellowed by water stains. For years, the visitor center at Pennsylvania's Gettysburg National Military Park looked less like a grand tribute to the 165,000 soldiers who fought there in 1863 than a building that 165,000 sloppy tourists had just tromped through. It was the kind of place that would inspire a kid to ...
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09/05/2008
Nigeria: The Impact of Corruption on Human Rights (2) (AllAfrica.com)
Political corruption has done the greatest harm to Nigeria's economic, political and social developments, undermining the legitimacy of public institutions.
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