Business Stories from October 17, 2012 (Change date)
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Stock market edges up on stronger housing reportOct 18, 2012 9:15 am - NEW YORK — A surprisingly strong housing report helped push the stock market mostly higher Wednesday, while weak earnings reports from Intel and IBM weighed on the Dow J...
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World Food Prize activities attract Occupy protestOct 17, 2012 11:12 am - DES MOINES, Iowa — It’s difficult to argue with the goals of the World Food Prize Foundation — to recognize people who have helped improve the quality and availability o...
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Glenview infant formula maker sued after baby’s deathOct 18, 2012 11:20 am - The families of a three babies sickened by a rare bacterial infection, including a 10-day-old Missouri infant who died, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Glenview-base...
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Barco Products donates bench profits fight breast cancerOct 17, 2012 5:26 pm - BATAVIA — Commercial outdoor products company Barco Products has made a one-year commitment to support the National Breast Cancer foundation by donating all profits on t...
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Stericycle redesigns websiteOct 17, 2012 11:00 am - LAKE FOREST — Stericycle, Inc. has enhanced and relaunched its website www.stericycle.com to to better serve its growing customer base of more than a half-million custom...
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Texas landowners take a rare stand against Big OilOct 17, 2012 1:56 pm - SUMNER, Texas — Oil has long lived in harmony with farmland and cattle across the Texas landscape, a symbiosis nurtured by generations and built on an unspoken honor cod...
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Wine experts: worst grape harvest in half centuryOct 17, 2012 10:47 am - BRUSSELS — Drought, frost and hail have combined to ravage Europe’s wine grape harvest, which in key regions this year will be the smallest in half a century, vintners s...
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Study: Multivitamins may lower cancer risk in menOct 17, 2012 11:15 am - America’s favorite dietary supplements, multivitamins, modestly lowered the risk for cancer in healthy male doctors who took them for more than a decade, the first large...
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Tracy Hill, pioneer in suburban property management, dies at 68Oct 18, 2012 2:23 pm - The property management industry lost one of its pioneers in Tracy Hill, who died Sunday at age 68. Hill grew up working in his father's company, Kimball Hill Homes, le...
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Whirlpool delays layoffs from Indiana centerOct 17, 2012 10:02 am - EVANSVILLE, Ind. — Whirlpool Corp. says it is delaying planned layoffs at its development center in Evansville in part because some people have left their jobs ahead of ...