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Gearing Up for the New Year!

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Rick Snyder (R) for signing into law legislation (Public Acts 348 and 349) that will allow workers in the state to decide whether or not to join a union. In preparation for potential challenges, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has created a task force to defend Snyder’s action.

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State Focus: Arkansas – Easy To Reach, Easy To Grow

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Arkansas’s railroad infrastructure includes three Class I systems: Union Pacific, BNSF Railway, and Kansas City Southern Railway. Union Pacific operates major yards in Little Rock and Pine Bluff, along with a locomotive repair facility in North Little Rock.

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

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The European Union has been in intense negotiations with Beijing in recent weeks to try to resolve the trade dispute, and the latest reports say a tentative agreement has been reached. In 2010, both sales and production in China topped 18 million units, with 13.76 and other free-market proponents.

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

Building Information Management

of BIM (2009) and Green BIM (2010). Igor founded Tokmo Solutions (merged with EcoDomus in 2010), the leading provider of Lean Construction and COBie-supporting software solutions. Deke is a 1973 graduate of Virginia Tech and holds a BArch, he has done post graduate work at the National Defense University.

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LOCATION FOCUS: Texas: Big Heart, Country, Business

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billion in 2010. Census Bureau reported that Texas added more than 420,000 people from 2010 to 2011, a larger increase than any other state, providing nearly 19 percent of the nation’s population growth for the year. Facebook opened its Austin office in May 2010 and doubled the facility’s size in October 2011. billion, up 20.7

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

Building Information Management

of BIM (2009) and Green BIM (2010). Igor founded Tokmo Solutions (merged with EcoDomus in 2010), the leading provider of Lean Construction and COBie-supporting software solutions. Deke is a 1973 graduate of Virginia Tech and holds a BArch, he has done post graduate work at the National Defense University.

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COVER STORY: Global Biotech Report

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Across Europe, there were 56 venture rounds of greater than $5 million (down from 65 in 2010). HealthCapital, the cluster management of the region’s healthcare industries, was implemented in 2010. The federal government and the European Union provide additional double-figure million Euro funding.

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