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In Remembrance of Bill Pulte, a Housing Giant

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All are accurate, but one is missing: innovator. In the ’60s, he started building farther afield, in Chicago, Washington, D.C., In 1972, the company began offering its own financing to homebuyers at competitive mortgage rates. The house sold for $10,000 and he never looked back. and Atlanta.

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INDUSTRY FOCUS: Biotech, A Recession-Proof Growth Sector

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we are pleased to report an increase of more than 96,000 jobs in the bioscience sector since 2001, even after accounting for the impacts of the recent severe recession,” said Jim Greenwood, president and CEO of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO). “Given the continuing concerns about job creation in the U.S.,

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COVER STORY: 2013 Business Facilities Rankings Report – Metro And Global Rankings

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Louisiana’s capital has had great success in executing the state’s strategy of bringing together business and higher education in innovative public-private partnerships that spur initiatives in new high-growth sectors. CPRT will secure private financing for the residential building, which will also be an asset of the WMF.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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Alabama got a turbocharged boost to the top of our automotive scoreboard from the Alabama Industrial Development Training [AIDT] program, an innovative leader in workforce training initiatives that specializes in developing on-site training facilities for key industries, including aerospace, ship-building and automotive. 2 at 26 percent).

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