Factory orders declined 1.5% in December, the biggest drop in five months, the Commerce Department reported Feb. 4. The decline followed a revised 1.5% rise in November. Orders for durable goods, items meant to last three years or more, ...
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Class 8 truck orders doubled in December 2013 from both the month and the year before,making it the second biggest Class 8 order month since March 2006. "The U.S.and Canada did the'heavy lifting'for Class 8 orders in December,while Mexico ...
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The US has temporarily lifted sanctions on 14 major Iranian petrochemical companies, following the implementation of the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA) on January 20. Iran and the P5+1 consisting of US, Russia, UK, France and China Plus ...
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Family Research Council(FRC)President Tony Perkins released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court issuing a temporary injunction in the case involving the Little Sisters of the Poor against the U.S.Department of Health ...
The exports of apparel earned US$ 5.52 billion for the Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia in 2013, registering a rise of sharp 20 percent over $4.61 billion exports made in 2012, reports xinhuanet.com, citing data from the Ministry of ...
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Do you wonder what local farmers do to ensure the wellbeing of their livestock when it is cold outside? Baby it's cold outside – and it has been for some time. If the future predictions are accurate, this cold is going to be hanging ...
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BEIJING-A preliminary ruling by the Ministry of Commerce on Friday said solar-grade polysilicon from the European Union(EU)has been dumped in the Chinese market. Solar-grade polysilicon from the EU was subsidized and as a ...
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The Washington Post: Obamacare Breeds Distrust Of Liberalism For President Obama, the state of the political union ... could be better. It is not only that the president's political support is diminished; it is diminished, in large part, ...
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Rates rising fastest among those over 65, and most injuries now due to falls, not car crashes The number of serious traumatic spinal cord injuries is on the rise in the United States, and the leading cause no longer appears to be motor ...
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The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) announced today that the following projects (in alphabetical order) have been identified as the three finalist projects for the World Design Impact Prize 2013-2014: A ...
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Traumatic spinal cord injuries are on the rise in the United States and the leading cause no longer is motor vehicle crashes, but falls, researchers say. Dr. Shalini Selvarajah, a post-doctoral surgical research fellow at the Johns ...
A fiber optic cable consists of a bundle of glass threads, each of which is capable of transmitting messages that modulates into light waves. A fiber optic is made out of glass. The glass used in making optic cable is in its purest form. ...
LAS VEGAS — Motion upholstery resource Barcalounger has signed a lease for a new permanent showroom at the Las Vegas Market, which opens Sunday. The new exhibit space in World Market Center A-948 will allow the company to show a ...
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China, facing rising human cases of the H7N9 avian flu, asked its municipalities and provinces to be on higher alert to control the disease. The National Health and Family Planning Commission, which summoned a meeting of health officials ...
Soil conditions that are typically seen as negative during the crop season could help keep things in better shape this winter, especially when high winds make soils susceptible to erosion, which is most common during this time of year, 2 ...
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