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ECONOMICS: India's most misunderstood sector TRANSPORT ECONOMICS. Almost unnoticed, over the last 20 years, the transport business has been globalised and liberalised almost to the extent of finance. It is now broadly called logistics and comprises not just the means of moving goods and ...
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ECONOMY: Bandh disrupts financial operations country-wide Market turnover drops 35%; economy loss put at Rs 3,000 cr. Monday's Opposition-led strike over the fuel price hike disrupted trade and businesses across the ...
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Nominees for the 80th annual Sullivan Award include a Heisman Trophy winner and athletes who won titles in sports:
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What happens when a top-level professional athlete doesn’t get his/her way? What happens when that athlete trains to the best of his/her ability and falls short of the top spot? When the unexpected happens, will he/she act graciously or react immaturely? In the case of Evgeni Plushenko, the latter is true. Plushenko, a male figure skater from the Russian Federation, won the silver medal at the ...
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Whatever happened to 'I did my best'? (The Butler Collegian)
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AIRLINES: Paramount to buy 10 Airbus A-321 Airline to launch international operations. New Delhi, June 17 The Chennai-based Paramount Airways has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the European aircraft manufacturer, Airbus Industrie, to purchase 10 Airbus A-321 aircraft, with the ...
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COMMODITY COMMENTARY: Hike in gold customs duty can yield Rs 1,200-cr revenue The Finance Minister who is currently busy with preparatory work for the Union Budget scheduled to be presented to the parliament on July 3 is sure to find budget-making a tough exercise simply because his degrees of freedom in terms ...
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Charles W. Briggs Jr. was president of Anderson Cadillac, a Rotary Club member and a model railroader.
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Bill Briggs sold cars, but he loved trains (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)