3433 results returned for search: "education AND " category "Business"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New US claims for jobless aid rose last week while consumer prices notched their largest decline in nearly one-and-a-half years in May, suggesting interest rates will remain ultra low to nurse the fragile economic recovery.
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DATE: Jun 18, 2010
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TOKYO (AP) – Toyota will restart the delayed construction of its Mississippi plant, which will provide 2,000 jobs and be up and running by the fall of next year, the Japanese automaker said yesterday.
Toyota Motor Corp.'s auto plant in Blue Springs, ...
DATE: Jun 18, 2010
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A few weeks ago Bloomberg News reported that, in just the past year, hundreds of students at the Harvard Business School have taken something called the MBA Oath.
Endorsed by Harvard's dean, and replicated by other business schools, the oath comes in...
DATE: Jun 12, 2010
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I followed a live blog on USA Today during the presentation by Apple's CEO Steve Jobs, who unveiled the latest iPhone at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco earlier this week. The basic specs for the iPhone 4 is it is avai...
DATE: Jun 09, 2010
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China says it will keep blocking online content
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BEIJING (AP) -- China vowed Tuesday to keep a tight grip on the Internet, saying it would continue to block anything considered subversive or...
DATE: Jun 09, 2010
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If you've heard one too many "thanks, but no thanks" (or more likely nothing at all) from prospective employers, it may be time to consider retraining.
Retraining, or retooling, may be the answer to landing a rewarding new job in the economic downtur...
DATE: Jun 08, 2010
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Germany moves to save $96 billion by 2014
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BERLIN (AP) -- Germany will cut welfare benefits, introduce new taxes and shed government jobs to save as much as euro80 billion ($96 bil...
DATE: Jun 08, 2010
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Bermuda continues to have a bright future as a global insurance centre, despite political threats from the US and elsewhere, according to Flagstone Re co-founder Mark Byrne.
What matters to the Island is not whether insurers domicile their holding co...
DATE: Jun 01, 2010
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XL Capital boss Mike McGavick urged US lawmakers to remember what the Bermuda insurance market has done to support the US economy before considering law changes that could harm the Island.
Mr. McGavick made his comments to an audience dominated by in...
DATE: May 31, 2010
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Laptops in a classroom can increase engagement, attentiveness, participation and learning, according to a study of college students, published by this month's edition of the journal Computers & Education.
However, like any other aid to education, the...
DATE: May 26, 2010
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