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  • 10 years later: How the Mad Cow crisis changed an industry and a province ... - Calgary Herald -

    Calgary Herald

    10 years later: How the Mad Cow crisis changed an industry and a province ...
    Calgary Herald
    In Washington, D.C., John Masswohl — then Agriculture Counsellor for the Canadian Embassy — knew he was in for a busy summer the second he got the phone call from a counterpart in Ottawa. “My immediate thought was, 'I need to go talk to the ...

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  • Family Business Sues Obama Over HHS Mandate, Would Pay $218000 in Fines - LifeNews.com -

    Family Business Sues Obama Over HHS Mandate, Would Pay $218000 in Fines
    LifeNews.com
    Family Business Sues Obama Over HHS Mandate, Would Pay $218,000 in Fines. by Thomas More Law Center | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com | 5/8/13 11:50 AM. Print · Email · National. Today, the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public ...

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  • Twittastic Top Tweets, Sunday, May 19, 2013 - Amarillo.com -

    Twittastic Top Tweets, Sunday, May 19, 2013
    Amarillo.com
    ... for the Panhandle, South Plains, and Permian Basin. “For first time, I totally agree w/ Iran & Russia — miracles do happen! 3 Foes Unite to Keep Wrestling in Olympics.” @SenJohnMcCain. John McCain — U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Washington, DC.

  • Longtime Broken Arrow banker Scott Graham dies at 77 - Tulsa World -

    Longtime Broken Arrow banker Scott Graham dies at 77
    Tulsa World
    A native of Durant, Scott Graham was a graduate of the Oklahoma Military Academy in Claremore, George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and the University of Oklahoma law school. He and his family moved to Broken Arrow in 1941 when his father ...

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  • The odd couple of greenhouse gas reduction in Colorado - Mountain Town News -

    The odd couple of greenhouse gas reduction in Colorado
    Mountain Town News
    Aspen is an evangelist for climate-change action, chief executive Mike Kaplan even traveling to Washington D.C. several years ago to testify in favor of cap-and-trade legislation. Jim Cooper, the president of Oxbow Mining, says ... After he took ...

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  • Orb Fails to Deliver for Baltimore-Born Owner - New York Times -

    New York Times

    Orb Fails to Deliver for Baltimore-Born Owner
    New York Times
    Janney, 64, was born in Baltimore and resides in Butler, Md., but he will have to wait at least another year for a win in his home state's signature race. Orb, who had a chance to extend his quest to become the first Triple Crown winner ... That was ...

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  • Family-run Preston Co. excavators growing with the times - State Journal -

    Family-run Preston Co. excavators growing with the times
    State Journal
    The companies' main markets are in West Virginia but they've ranged into Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and Kentucky and would work in Virginia if asked. The Boyle family has been in coal, then in excavation for nearly 70 years. The family business ...

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  • Keeping a third-generation piano business finely tuned - Baltimore Sun -

    Keeping a third-generation piano business finely tuned
    Baltimore Sun
    In fact, the family business, founded in Philadelphia, thrived through three generations and extended into three states. Hundreds of families in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland bought new and used pianos from one of the Cohens over the years.

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  • Essay by a Camden native's daughter - Courier-Gazette & Camden Herald (blog) (subscription) -

    Essay by a Camden native's daughter
    Courier-Gazette & Camden Herald (blog) (subscription)
    So when Dad graduated from the university, we moved from South Apartments at University of Maine at Orono, to Maryland, then North Carolina, Rhode Island and finally Florida. In 1965 the family returned home to Camden/Rockport so Dad could take over ...

  • Labor shortages threaten to derail economy - Central Valley Business Times -

    Labor shortages threaten to derail economy
    Central Valley Business Times
    According to the Brookings report, farmers in Wisconsin, North Carolina, Maryland, Louisiana, and Washington have been forced to delay expansion plans. Thirty percent of hospitals are reporting shortages in specialty services. Microsoft had to locate a ...

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