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U.S. firms to charge smokers, obese more for healthcare
ReutersLike a lot of companies, Veridian Credit Union wants its employees to be healthier. In January, the Waterloo, Iowa-company rolled out a wellness program and voluntary screenings. It also gave workers a mandate — quit smoking, curb obesity, or you'...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, High Blood Pressure, Employment, 401K, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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Telling schools how to spend
The term "shared sacrifice" is much in vogue in today's challenging economy, and elected officials would be wise to pay heed. When the Average Joe has seen his pension and wages frozen and other benefits reduced, the last thing he wants to read in his...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Health Insurance, Elections, Unions, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers
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United Continental's CEO has a daunting challenge before him
Tribune staff reporterJeff Smisek was a partner at a law firm in Houston in the mid-1990s when, during a business lunch, he was offered the opportunity to meet with Gordon Bethune, CEO of Continental Airlines. He didn't know Bethune, but his sales instincts kicked in. He...Tags: Business, Economy, Business and Finance, Arts and Culture, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts)
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Clear Spring fire company has 'nothing to hide'
arnoldp@herald-mail.comThe financial detail open to anyone visiting Clear Spring Volunteer Fire Co. is like looking at a feast of numbers. Here is a recent glance: • During September’s Saturday bingo nights, people paid $20,393 to play and won $17,573, bought $62,...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Companies and Corporations, Internal Revenue Service, Awards and Prizes
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Farm and Food File
Some serious outdoor carpentry this fall quickly proved, again, the enormous amount of woodworking skills I did not acquire on the southern Illinois dairy farm of my youth. It's easy to peg the origins of this deficiency: Working with wood on our farm...Tags: Pecans, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Career and Workplace
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For many, unemployment drags on and on
Jo Anne Schneider studies marginalized groups: refugees, the poor, people with disabilities — and, lately, Americans who have been unemployed for months and months, which includes a lot of people who never would have considered themselves on the...Tags: Anthropology, Health Insurance, Employment, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, Unemployment Benefits
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Exelon's Philadelphia utility fulfills promises to customers, regulators
As Exelon Corp. continues to pursue Constellation Energy Group, the Chicago energy giant is pointing to a decade-old deal with a Philadelphia utility as a success that should reassure wary Marylanders — and regulators — about its intentions...Tags: Peco Energy Company, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Economy, Business and Finance, Business, Litigation and Regulation
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Steep gaming losses, suspicion of embezzlement, led to probe
arnoldp@herald-mail.comOver the decades, the bingo games at the Volunteer Fire Company of Halfway, Md., had become a rich source of revenue for the emergency service. But from summer 2008 through summer 2009, things went wrong in the company's gaming operation, costing it up...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Corporate Crime, Embezzlement, Theft, Companies and Corporations
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Gaming v. Gaming/Disney: whose lobbying team will prevail?
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelTALLAHASSEE — Malaysian-based Genting wants to build a $3 billion resort casino in downtown Miami. And they're hiring an All-Star team of Florida lobbyists to make it a reality. Since summer, gaming interests of all varieties have hired nearly... -
Penalize employers and illegal immigration will stop
Using returning troops to patrol our borders, as a recent letter writer suggested ("Put Iraq veterans to work on the U.S.-Mexico border," Oct. 26), may seem like a good idea, but if they would only be able to patrol part of it, what good would it do? The...Tags: Parkville, File Sharing, Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, Career and Workplace
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Getting a major employer to locate in downtown Hagerstown could attract small shops and restaurants
dona@herald-mail.comDowntown Hagerstown will might never be a retail magnet again, but getting a major employer to locate downtown could attract the small shops and restaurants needed to support a large business or institution. "It's a chicken or egg argument," Mayor...Tags: Business, Alexander (music group), Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Restaurant and Catering Industry, Employment
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