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Baosteel, Chinese Steelmakers May Have to Pay More for Iron Ore May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Baost... Baosteel, Chinese Steelmakers Ma
Baosteel, Chinese Steelmakers May Have to Pay More for Iron Ore
May 16 (Bloomberg) -- Baosteel Group Corp. and rival Chinese steelmakers, the world's largest iron ore buyers, may have to pay more for the steelmaking ingredient after Germany's biggest mill accepted a 19 percent increase.
ThyssenKrupp AG's agreement yesterday with Brazil's Cia. Vale do Rio Doce, the wo...
About 50 percent of Delmarva Power's residential and small-business customers have chosen to pha... Big power users find new su
About 50 percent of Delmarva Power's residential and small-business customers have chosen to phase in the new electricity rates. Under the plan, those customers would delay for about a year paying the full amount of the price increases that Delmarva imposed on May 1. After that, those customers would have higher bills than if they had not joined the phase-in plan.
Under the plan, any cus...
Although there have been a couple of attempts in the past decade or so to have townspeople consid... Seekonk Town Meeting tonig
Although there have been a couple of attempts in the past decade or so to have townspeople consider an override, such a request never made it past a Town Meeting vote. This time, however, a variety of factors have come together that so negatively impact the town's operating budget for the coming year that key town officials themselves say an override is warranted.
Thanks to recent news f...
A predominantly Vietnamese American neighborhood has become a model of recovery due to its reside... A Community Wastes No Time
A predominantly Vietnamese American neighborhood has become a model of recovery due to its residents' initiative.
NEW ORLEANS — Twenty days after Hurricane Katrina struck, Ken Pham started gutting, tiling and repairing the roof of his flood-damaged home in New Orleans East.
With his family safely ensconced in an apartment in Baton Rouge, Pham slept in his sodden house on a l...
In Cohoes, property owners will vote on a 2006-2007 spending plan that includes a 7.6 percent tax... School district budget pro
In Cohoes, property owners will vote on a 2006-2007 spending plan that includes a 7.6 percent tax increase, which could be lowered a few percentage points if city school district secures $700,000 in state aid.
The $30.7 million budget proposal reflects a slight $1.1 million increase in spending over the current year's budget.
The proposal is also only $3,876 more than the state imp...
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When her infant daughter's chronic ear infections made her miss too many days at work, Angenita Tanner of Chicago decided in 1996 to quit her job and work from home as a full-time babysitter.
Experienced in the field and equipped with an associate degree in early ch...
Business 7-Day Archive Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Back to Ho... Gross earnings count in calculat
Business 7-Day Archive Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
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I would like to retire at the end of August and have a question about Social Security's very confusing work rules. I was told I could make $12,480 a year and still receive benefits. Is that amount the net or...
KUALA LUMPUR, May 15 (Bernama) -- HSBC Bank Malaysia Bhd expects its joint venture takaful insura... HSBC Takaful To Be Operati
KUALA LUMPUR, May 15 (Bernama) -- HSBC Bank Malaysia Bhd expects its joint venture takaful insurance company to be operational in October this year.
The joint venture is a partnership involving the bank's insurance arm HSBC Insurance (Asia Pacific) Holdings Ltd, Jerneh Asia Bhd and the Employees Provident Fund (EPF).
The bank was awarded a takaful licence recently, HSBC Bank Malays...
Study: Working people most likely to be without health protection including ignorance that ... 1 in 5 AV residents uninsured...
Study: Working people most likely to be without health protection
including ignorance that they qualify for programs such as Medi-Cal and Healthy Families.
Approximately 220,000 county residents qualify for government-sponsored health insurance but are not insured, center officials said.
"I think this is clearly a growing problem. All the evidence is, it's going to get worse...
A Star-Gazette survey of 13 school districts in Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben and Tioga counties fo... Health insurance Schools i
A Star-Gazette survey of 13 school districts in Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben and Tioga counties found that employees contribute between zero and 22.5 percent toward the cost of their health insurance.
By comparison, a 2005 survey of 204 mostly Fortune 1000 companies conducted by Towers Perrin HR Services, a global professional service firm, found that employees paid an average of 20 percen...
