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Washington, September 14-- If the Federal Reserve raises interest rates next week as expected, it will be nearing completion of the first stage of what appears to be a two-stage campaign to return interest rates to normal levels.
Hoffman Estates, IL, September 13—On Monday, Sears is officially launching into the online sales of home furnishings and apparel.
Washington, September 9 – Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums increased an average of 11.2% in 2004 -- less than last year’s 13.9% increase, but still the fourth consecutive year of double-digit growth
Atlanta, GA, September 8-- It’s the force that keeps spaghetti sauce from ruining your favorite shirt. It even helped protect the spacesuits worn by the astronauts who went to the moon.
New York, September 8--U.S. chain store sales in the first week of September finished flat, due in part to a later Labor Day and Hurricane Francis, a report said on Wednesday.
St. Louis, MO, September 7--The judge supervising Solutia's bankruptcy reorganization case has approved payouts by the company to meet environmental obligations and responsibilities to residents of Anniston, AL, who were exposed to polychlorinated bip
Troy, MI, September 3-- Kmart will sell 45 of its stores to Sears for $524 million, Kmart said Thursday.
Atlanta, GA, September 2--The story is now familiar to many; the “spear in the chest” epiphany Ray Anderson experienced when he first read Paul Hawken’s “The Ecology of Commerce.”
Jihlava, Czech Republic, September 1--Kronospan is modernizing its production in the Czech Republic, investing more than CEK 2.5 B in a new chip board line, which should be commissioned in July 2005.
Bombay, India, August 30--People like to transform the ground on which they tread into the stuff of dreams, be it a sober and sophisticated marble flooring or the opulent welcome of a red-carpeted or rose petal floor, according to the Statesman Ltd.