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Hydro projects in Spiti top priority Virbhadra Singh
Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh Saturday said more micro and mini hydropower projects would be set up in Spiti Valley to usher an era of prosperity and provide employment opportunities to the youth of the area. "The government will take consent of the locals before allowing the projects to set up," the chief minister said at a public meeting here. Virbhadra Singh is touring Lahaul-Spiti ...
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Gold Bears Revived as Rout Resumes After Coin Rush
George Soros joined investors selling holdings in exchange-traded products that have retreated to a two-year low. Seventeen analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expect prices to fall next week, with eight bullish and three neutral, the highest proportion of bears in two weeks. The analysts were divided a week ago after gold rebounded as much as 13 percent from the two-year low of $1,321.95 an ounce ...
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Obama Focuses on Middle-Class Jobs
U.S. President Barack Obama says he is focusing on ways to help the American middle class make economic gains, to bring them in line with the economic recovery of big ...
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Obama talks jobs says politics misplace focus
President Barack Obama attends a roundtable at the Center for Urban Families (CFUF) in Baltimore, Friday, May 17, 2013, during his second "Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour". CFUF is a Baltimore non-profit whose mission is to strengthen urban communities by helping fathers and families achieve stability and economic success. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn ...
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Facebooks Sandberg says its okay for women to cry at work
business daily, the 43-year-old admitted: "I cry at work," adding women are not "one type of person Monday through Friday" and "then a different person in the nights and weekend." "I think we are all of us emotional beings and it's okay for us to share that emotion at work," said Facebook's number two, who was named ...
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The Faculty
"The Faculty" makes both director Robert Rodriguez and writer Kevin Williamson look like one-trick ponies--hot Hollywood commodities who can't deliver the goods over the long-haul. "The Faculty" is basically a watered-down and disappointing version of what they do best: Williamson's ability to write believable teenage characters and subvert the horror genre, and Rodriguez's ability to choreograph ... ...
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Kudumbashree targets employment for one lakh people
Kudumbashree initiative - considered as one of the largest women's empowerment project in the country - plans to facilitate employment for 100,000 young people by the end of this financial year. The aim is to achieve the target by March 31, 2014, through skill-based training and support for unemployed youth at each of Kudumbashree's 1,072 Community Development Societies (CDS)- ...
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Jacksonville sets Stage for 100 jobs
A new distribution center is expected to bring as many as 100 jobs to Jacksonville in its first year, a board member with the Jacksonville Economic Development Corp. said.Board member Barry Hughes said local Stage Stores Inc. intends to purchase or lease a facility at North Bolton Street and U.S. Highway 69, which would be used as a new distribution center. The property is the former Astro Air ...
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Employment rate up again
Tyler's employment rate for April spiked for the third consecutive month.Last month's 93.8 percent was up from the 93.6 percent employment rate seen in March and 93.4 percent in February, according to the latest figures from the Texas Workforce Commission. April's employment rate also was a sharp increase from the 93.4 percent seen in the area a year ago.';All major ...
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Obama talks economy jobs in Baltimore
Barack Obama found himself sitting near a 29-year-old man who was uncertain how to reset his life after being released from prison two years ago. In one of the few spontaneous moments of the president's visit, Marcus Dixon - father of two boys - told Obama how he connected in 2011 with a workforce development group called the Center for Urban Families, put his life back together and began ...
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Class of 2013 demands more from universities help us find jobs
The class of 2013 entered university against a backdrop of economic havoc. The global financial crisis was a year old, job prospects were grim, layoffs were constant and parents were watching their nest eggs take a beating.This latest crop of graduates was perhaps fortunate to ride out the worst of the recession from the calm of a campus library, but it is now time for many of them to navigate ...
Reported in the press
He is the most evil, vile, demonic criminal. He is dead to me. There will be no visits, there will be no phone calls. He can never be Daddy again. I have no sympathy for the man.
Angie Gregg
Gregg was speaking about her father Ariel Castro who allegedly kidnapped, raped and held captive for a decade, three young women in Cleveland, Ohio.
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London Marriott Park Lane
Having taken the Heathrow Express to Paddinton station (a 15 minute ride, with trains running every 15 minutes), I then ...
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