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The Reckoning

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This at a time when the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been estimated at 400 parts per million, long specified as the tipping point for self-sustaining climate change. Remember when the CIA told our leaders in the late 1980s that the Soviet Union was stronger than ever? This week, the U.S. 1 economy until 2020?

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Feature Story: Aiming For The Top In Utah

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Today, there are fewer state employees than there were in 2001, despite double-digit growth in the Beehive State’s population. We want to create a sustainable future that maintains, if not improves, our quality of life and provides economic opportunities for our kids and grandkids and those who come after them.”.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

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Phil Wirdzek is the founding president and executive director of the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL). I2SL is broadening the base of knowledge and expertise in sustainable labs and other high technology facilities. During his career at the U.S. How can bSa members contribute to Moving the Industry Forward?

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

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Phil Wirdzek is the founding president and executive director of the International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I2SL). I2SL is broadening the base of knowledge and expertise in sustainable labs and other high technology facilities. During his career at the U.S. How can bSa members contribute to Moving the Industry Forward?

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LOCATION FOCUS: Texas: Big Heart, Country, Business

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Texas’ job growth over the past year points to a steady and sustained expansion of our state’s economy,” said Tom Pauken. In the decade encompassing 2001 to 2011, Midland, TX, had the highest annual average growth rate in the nation at 9.1 Pauken is the chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission. percent, increasing from $5.3

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COVER STORY: Global Biotech Report

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The federal government and the European Union provide additional double-figure million Euro funding. The park has been expanded in 2001, 2006 and 2011 and now offers 18,000 square meters of laboratory, office and storage space for companies and institutes. The leverage effect generated a further 45 million in private investment.

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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We’ll continue to be quick on our feet to provide you with this reliable constant no matter the ups-and-downs of economic fortunes: that our annual Rankings Report will be the fairest and most accurate assessment of progress being made by the locations that are leaders in charting a path to sustainable growth in these troubled times.

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