January 24, 2012 – 4:33 am
Diane Alter – AHN News Reporter Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – Effective Jan. 22, it will cost you an extra penny to mail a first class letter in the United States. The increase, announced in October, is the first change for first class mail stamps in more than two and a half years. Prices read more »
Caliper Life Sciences, Inc., today reported its financial results for the first quarter of 2011. First quarter revenue increased to $35.8 million, or 25%, from $28.7 million in the same period of 2010. View full post on All Stories
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LCA-Vision turns in first profit in three years View full post on Insurance Stories
Filed under: Economy , Investing , Market News , Investment Hedge funds, which experienced sharp drops in assets during the credit crisis, now hold an all-time high of more than $2 trillion in capital, according to a new survey by Hedge Fund Research Inc., which analyzed their first-quarter numbers. The figure is a 50% improvement read more »
Tags achilles heel, assets, commodities prices, crisis, dow jones industrial, dow jones industrial average, First, fund, Hedge, hedge fund research, Investment, investment advantage, time, trillion
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A southwest Chinese city on Wednesday piloted a lottery scheme to allocate public rental apartments to eligible families with limited income to protect them from sky-high property prices.The … View full post on All Stories
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February 16, 2011 – 9:55 am
Edward Lewis – AHN Sports Reporter Daytona Beach, FL, United States (AHN Sports) – NASCAR has a new kind of two-car racing at Daytona International Speedway this Speed Weeks but due to the speeds they produce the sanctioning body is adding a new wrinkle to slow the cars down in the interest of safety. A read more »
Tags aims, car, Cars, First, joe gibbs, John Darby, NASCAR, Safety, slow, speed, superspeedways
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February 1, 2011 – 9:51 am
AHN News Staff Rome, Italy (AHN) – To spread awareness on global warming, healthy lifestyle through environment-friendly methods and to curb gas emissions, Italy on Sunday celebrated its first Car-Free Day of the year in Milan, Turin and several other cities. Only electric cars and bicycles were allowed to circulate the entire day. The Car-Free read more »
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December 21, 2010 – 10:52 pm
Property casualty insurers had a healthy growth level in after-tax profits, which stood at $26.7 billion through the first nine months of 2010, according to a release by the Property Casualty … View full post on Insurance Stories
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October 16, 2010 – 9:47 am
Edward Lewis – AHN Sports Reporter Concord, NC, United States (AHN) – Four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon scored his first pole of the season Thursday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Now, with six races left in The Chase, he just needs to get that first win of the season. With a 59-race read more »
Tags cale yarborough, charlotte motor speedway, denny hamlin, First, Gordon, Kevin Harvick, Paul Menard, Pole, Scores, Season, time nascar
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September 22, 2010 – 10:06 am
Edward Lewis – AHN Sports Reporter Loudon, NH, United States (AHN) – Clint Bowyer was the last driver to make The Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title, but he was first to storm out of the gate Sunday when he won the Chase’s first race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Bowyer, part of read more »
Tags Bowyer, Chase, clint bowyer, david reutimann, denny hamlin, First, Hampshire, race, sam hornish jr, Storms, time defending champion, winless drought
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