DANBURY, Conn. — Aided by a 4.9% same-store sales increase at its retail stores, Ethan Allen said profits jumped 21.9% in the quarter ended Dec. 31. The manufacturer and retailer said the earnings increase came in spite of Hurricane ...
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US Federal Reserve data Wednesday showed that industrial production increased 0.3 percent in December after having risen 1.0 percent in November when production rebounded in the industries that had been negatively affected by Hurricane ...
Dutch retailer Ahold today (17 January) booked an increase in fourth-quarter and full-year sales, which were boosted by gains at its domestic and US units. The company said sales rose 8.5% in fiscal 2012. Stripping out currency exchange, ...
If you lost power during Hurricane Sandy, don't taste the food to see if it's OK. Instead, follow this advice from the U.S. Department of Agriculture: Keep the refrigerator and freezer doors closed as much as possible. That will keep ...
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Of the dozens of deaths attributed to Hurricane Sandy, many were caused by carbon monoxide poisoning from generators being run in garages, basements, porches and other enclosed or partially enclosed spaces. Unfortunately, the rush to power ...
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The second I saw the email I jumped up from my desk, images of lights and warmth and refrigerated food dancing in my head. It was Thursday, November 1; four days after Sandy left much of the eastern United States, including my house, ...
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The ravages of Hurricane Sandy may have ruined your medications. Follow this advice from the Food and Drug Administration to make sure the drugs you take are safe: Refrigeration needed. Drugs that require refrigeration should be ...
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Hydro One was awarded one of the Edison Electric Institute's 2012 Emergency Assistance Awards for supporting the recovery efforts from the June 2012 Mid-Atlantic and Midwest derecho,and Hurricane Sandy.Photos below! "Our employees'skills ...
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One of the frustrations of Hurricane Sandy is that even our best efforts could not prevent a huge amount of destruction. Consider my friend Adam Wexler, owner of Resolution Audio Video in the waterfront section of Red Hook in Brooklyn. ...
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The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 1.7 percent in November from October, rising after a one-month decline, according to the US Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics' (BTS) ...
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Medicare beneficiaries whose lives have been upended by Hurricane Sandy will be allowed to sign up for Medicare health and drug plans after the open enrollment deadline of Dec. 7, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has ...
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Investment in smart grid improvements (such as smart metering, outage management and distribution management systems) by utilities companies in the US could have enabled Hurricane Sandy to be handled more effectively. Outages could have ...
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About 19 percent of cell sites in the area hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy were still out of service on Thursday morning as recovery was slowed by other network failures and power shortages, according to the U.S. Federal Communications ...
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There's real-time drama unfolding at one of the data centers operating at 111 8th Ave. in NYC, a Google-owned building that occupies a full city block. There are a number of data centers housed in the nearly 3 million square foot building ...
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Devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy forced at least two major hospitals and a data center in lower Manhattan to resort to backup generators fueled by diesel for power. In these cases the backup processes failed. In two of the outages, ...
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