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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities Rankings Report

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From the July/August 2014 issue . SL Tennessee will begin construction in August 2014 with a goal of being fully operational by April 2015. 2009 (the Recession officially ended in April 2009, but unemployment didn’t peak until the end of that year) to the most current numbers available (April 2014, Bureau of Labor Statistics).

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Cover Story: 2014 Business Facilities – Metro And Global Rankings

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From the July/August 2014 issue. To read about the 2014 state rankings, visit this link.). Like Youngstown, Toledo is on track to see exports double between 2009 and 2014. The present effort in this part of the project is to develop 600 acres that will be the foundation of Virginia’s fourth, deep-water marine terminal.

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Nicole Peters, the troubleshooter

The Korte Company

Shortly after she started working for The Korte Company in 2014, her family embraced modernization by installing milking robots. This task is most challenging on Department of Defense projects. “When I was younger, I got up in the morning to milk and then I milked again at night. “He enjoyed it for sure. “If

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We ARE the Government

Buisness Facilities Contributed Content

We can take the dynamite away from the characters who, as this is being written, seem determined to blow up the foundation of our democracy and derail our still-sputtering economy. Aerospace And Defense Archives Articles By Industry Articles By Location Articles By Topic Featured Post Online Features Quality Of Life The Editor''s Blog U.S. -

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Great Leap Forward

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More recently, the PRC has begun to lay the foundation for a Chinese aerospace industry. An example is Velodyne, which developed light sensors for driverless cars after participating in a competition set up by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in 2005. The alarm bells have started ringing loudly in U.S.

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Location Focus: Florida – Rebounded And Ready

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From the July/August 2014 issue. 19 million for Space Florida, $5 million for the Florida Sports Foundation, $74 million for Visit Florida’s tourism marketing and promotion efforts and $71 million for the Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO). Photo: City of Cape Coral Economic Development Office.). By Dominique Cantelme.

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Montreal Named 2016 Intelligent Community of the Year

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Montreal is the fourth Canadian city to capture ICF’s top honor, and the first since 2014 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). Montreal is the fourth Canadian city to capture ICF’s top honor, and the first since 2014 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). Source: The Intelligent Community Forum/YouTube).