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Aug 28, 2011

SPORTS, Athletics News, Aug 28, 2011


Florida Athletics Remain Unbeaten: Gators Soccer, Volleyball Win Friday
Alligator Army
On Friday, August 19, the Gators' soccer team kicked off the Florida athletic season with a 2-0 win over instate rival Miami. Since then, the Gators have added two more wins and been joined on thesports' schedule by the volleyball squad. ...
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Delta College women's soccer falls to Jackson Community College in program's ...
MLive.com
Delta College added a women's soccer program in February as part of an athleticdepartment restructuring. The Pioneers are in a league with Schoolcraft College, Kellogg Community College and Jackson in the first year of the Michigan Community College ...
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MLive.com
Scandal threatens Shalala's ambitions at UMiami
The Associated Press
Meanwhile, she's been trying to maintain an aura of normalcy on campus, mingling with incoming freshmen and attending a women's soccer game. Miami's been down this road before, when the football program went wild in the 1980s and then again in the ...
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The Associated Press
MHP Physical and Occupational Therapy offers free Sports Injury Assessment Clinics
Oskaloosa news
According to MHP Physical and Occupational Therapy Director Ryan Rowley, PT, the free clinic is open to any area athlete whether they are involved with youth football, volleyball or soccer. “If the athlete and his or her family are questioning the ...
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Credit to the city for making recreation a priority — Ken Pagan's column
The North Bay Nugget
It's important to remember the City of North Bay has made a significant investment in local sportsand recreation with the three new athletic fields and three ball diamonds. For making recreation a priority and following through on local needs, ...
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BC-AP Sports Digest,Advisory
SI.com
By Sports Columnist Tim Dahlberg AP Photos. DAEGU, South Korea - When Oscar Pistorius sprints Sunday in the 400 meters at the athletics world championships, it would be so much better if we could simply sit back and savor the huge significance of the ...
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Area Sports Events Calendar Aug 27-Sept 3
Stamford Advocate
During her senior year, she was named co-captain of the team, and earned the University Medallion for outstanding athletics-academic achievement. Schneider was also a two-year starter on the varsity soccer team and helped the Huskies to a third place ...
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Longwood Tops Randolph 2-0 In Season Opener
Longwood Athletics
The Longwood University men's soccer team defeated Randolph College 2-0 on Saturday afternoon at the Athletics Complex in Farmville. Sophomore Nick Surkamp |Manassas (Osbourn Park) scored in the first half and freshman Zach Crandall |Lorton (South ...
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Nevada-UNLV football kickoff Oct. 8 set 4:05 pm
NOLA.com
... local youth football, soccer games and a number of community events that Saturday afternoon. Associate Athletic Director Keith Hackett says they think the 4:05 pm start will be more family-friendly than an early afternoon kickoff or a night game. ...
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Chelsea wins; Usain Bolt's perfect start and Michael Clarke confident
Herald Sun
In overnight sport, Chelsea beat Norwich 3-1, Usain Bolt qualified fastest and Australia notched a draw in their pre-Test warm-up game in Sri Lanka. Soccer: Chelsea left it late to clinch a 3-1 victory over 10-man Norwich that was marred by a serious ...
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ODU men's soccer team poised for run at CAA crown
The Virginian-Pilot
With seven returning starters, including leading goal scorer Chris Harmon, Old Dominion has a good chance to again challenge for the Colonial Athletic Association crown. ODU will rely on its stellar midfield to produce goals. ...
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Brentwood soccer league threatened with sanctions for field violations
San Jose Mercury News
Determining field priority has been a complicated process for the city because of an overwhelming demand for the use of soccer fields like those at the Sunset Park Athletic Complex, according to Bronzan. "Any penalty imposed by the city is going to ...
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In Pasqualoni, did UConn hire proven winner or failed Syracuse coach?
Danbury News Times
He's too busy doing football," joked Jake Crouthamel, the former Syracuse athletic director. As for Pasqualoni's time away from the college game, that was spent with the NFL's Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins. It's not as if he was coaching soccer in ...
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Ali to advocate safe driving
Oman Daily Observer
To visit injured kids at Khoula - By Our Sports Reporter - MUSCAT — The Sultanatesoccer great Ali al Habsi will join the growing line-up of stars who are advocating safe driving in the Sultanate when launching a campaign on the subject in Muscat ...
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Oman Daily Observer
Irene threat axes 'Meet the Heels'
News & Observer
"The safety of our players, coaches and fans is our top priority," Associate Athletic Director for Marketing Rick Steinbacher said in a prepared statement. "We have been in constant communication with various weather services and all the forecasts as ...
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1500 Young Adults Treated For Head Injuries Each Year
KITV Honolulu
Though football is the most notable contact sport, it's not the only in which these injuries occur. “What we've found is that our female athletes have a high number of concussions. Girls' soccer is No. 2 after football, and then close behind are ...
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MC schools eye concussions
Madison County Eagle
He said, “If someone has a chance of any injury they should be pulled from any sport they are doing.” Heather Manuel who has twin boys Jacob and Joseph Manuel who play eighth gradefootball, said her boys have never had a concussion but thinks the ...
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Shatel: Texas' network looks like a reach
Omaha World-Herald
But can you imagine anyone, even the hard-core Bevos, wanting to watch Texas sports 24-7? Don't ask Shot Kleen. He just smiles sheepishly. Kleen is Nebraska's assistant athletic director in charge of HuskerVision. On Thursday, he told me of the ...
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Crusader kickers crave the competition
Cincinnati.com (blog)
We ran into Sycamore and they were hot that night.” That's where the veteran coach sees a high school difference in his sport with others. “You rarely see major upsets infootball,” Hurley said. “But, (in) soccer, it's not that uncommon. ...
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Cincinnati.com (blog)
Trustee wants to see new concussion safety program
The Sudbury Star
By KEITH DEMPSEY ROBERT KIRWAN, FOR THE SUDBURY STAR The program would be for athletes who participate on school teams where there is a possibility of head injury -- specifically, hockey, football, basketball and soccer. At a meeting of the Rainbow ...
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St. Thomas Aquinas 34- Prattville 28
Broward County High School Sports (blog)
DIETER KURTENBACH a Chicago native and 2010 Missouri School of Journalism graduate, has covered Missouri Tigers athletics for KCOU radio and the Columbia Missourian, Major LeagueSoccer for Comcast SportsNet-Chicago, and lunch orders for ESPN ...
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Scarlet Raiders coach promises an exciting season
Examiner.com
Kevin East, the head coach of the Rutgers Newark soccer team, the Scarlet Raiders, took a look back at last season and signaled his intent for the upcoming season in an exclusive interview with Examiner.com. “I think if you come to the games you are ...
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Local College Notebook: AIC takes on early test in challenging UMass in ...
MassLive.com
WESTERN NEW ENGLAND – Seven outstanding achievers have been selected to the Downes Athletic Hall of Fame, and will be inducted Sept. 23 during Homecoming Weekend. They are club football quarterback Bill Moge of West Springfield; men'ssoccer standout ...
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MassLive.com
New program defeats league champs in debut
Soccer America
UNO decided to launch men's soccer as part of a shakeup of its athletic department and in conjunction with its move from Division II to Division I. In a shock move, it dropped football and its D2 championship wrestling program. ...
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Jean DePlacido column: Winning award in her grandfather's name stuns Boggis
The Salem News
Fans of the St. John's Prep football team were puzzled to look at the website and see the word 'CANCELED' in big red letters next to the season opener against Dracut. Prep athletic director andfootball coach Jim O'Leary said it was all a big mistake, ...
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Fairview teams still waiting on turf
GoErie.com
Fairview athletic director Jerry Lightner said affected home football games will be played at Edinboro's Sox Harrison Stadium on their original dates and times. The Tigers' season opener Friday against Meadville has been moved to Edinboro, ...
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Daegu to take center stage by hosting IAAF athletic tourney
동아일보
The tourney is considered one of the world's top three sports events along with the Summer Olympics and World Cup soccer finals. A combined 6.5 billion people watched the 2009 championships in Berlin on TV, attesting to the event`s popularity. ...
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Emily Arciero: Always Try Your Best and Stick with It
Patch.com
“It was all for fun,” said Emily Arciero, who like many people in Avon started off playing soccer, trying out different sports. Fun is certainly a part of Avon Falcons field hockey. The team puts on "pump-up" music before games and does spirit days, ...
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Soccer-Toure set for return from drugs ban next week
Reuters Africa
3 match against Rwanda in Kigali, the country's football federation said on its website (www.fif-ci.com). The match takes place just 24 hours after the ban imposed on the defender expires, with Toure sidelined for six months following a failed drugs ...
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Hurricane Irene shortens PGA Tour's Barclays
Los Angeles Times
US Open tennis officials called off one of their big pre-tournament events, the New York Mets postponed their games Saturday and Sunday against the Atlanta Braves and a Major League Soccer game was rescheduled in advance of the storm. ...
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Los Angeles Times
Football Season Kicks Off With New Concussion Guidelines
NewsWest9.com
"Headache, blurred vision, dizziness confusion, athletes stating that they feel in fog," Jim Carlson,athletic trainer at PhyTex Sports Rehab and Medicine, said. "It's something we do deal with and it's more regular than we'd like it to be," Dorsey ...
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Hawks prove they are ready for prime time
Asbury Park Press
“We've decided that soccer is a sport that we can compete in with anybody in the nation,'' Gaffney said as he stood along the white railing adjacent to the pitch. “So we're putting the resources in there appropriately so we can do that with the ...
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SPORT BRIEFS
Lake of the Woods Enterprise
Kenora Athletic Soccer Club teams have established themselves as top contenders in Winnipeg tournaments. For the second straight year, three Kenora teams out of a total 10 struck gold at the East St. Paul Summer Soccer Classic on the weekend. ...
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Mitchell High School has a busy weekend of activities to kick off fall seasons
Daily Republic
From approximately 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm, Iverson Chrysler and the Chrysler Corporation will be sponsoring a test-drive fundraiser for the Mitchell Athletic Booster Club in the west parking lot of Joe Quintal Field. With each test-drive, Chrysler will ...
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[Women's Soccer] Overtime goal beats Mustangs
Eastern Iowa Sports and Rec
Briar Cliff keeper Kalynn Sortino recorded the shutout with nine saves. Mount Mercy wraps up its western Iowa road trip against another Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) foe, taking on Dordt on Saturday at 1:00 pm in Sioux Center.
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O-State men to open Thursday
Oneonta Daily Star
Oneonta State's men's soccer team returns six SUNY Athletic Conference all-stars among 11 players who started for the Red Dragons at some point last season. The Red Dragons, coming off an 11-4-4 season that included a regular-season SUNYAC title, ...
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Eyes on Bisons quarterback
Winnipeg Sun
TV will be the exclusive live home of all Canada West basketball and volleyball games along with selected games in other sports, including football, hockey, and soccer. “We are thrilled to announce this partnership with Stretch Internet and launch this ...
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Sports calendar
Newton Kansan
COLLEGE SOCCER — York @ Bethel (W 2 pm, M 4 pm). PRO BASEBALL — American Association playoffs TBA, Cleveland @ Kansas City 1:10 pm (Fox Sports Kansas City). To area administrators: If your school's events are not listed, we still need your schedule. ...
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ATTENTION TO DETAIL Independence well-prepared for WPS Championship Game
Philly Soccer News
“We're athletic enough in the back to cope with them. The question is can they cope with Vero (Boquete).” The Independence coped pretty well with the Flash all season long. Philadelphia lost 2-1 at home on May 29, with the Flash's game winner coming on ...
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Schools, county at odds over school projects at Beech, Station Camp, Merrol Hyde
The Tennessean
Down the road at Merrol Hyde Magnet School, students had hoped to have an outdoor athletic field, and soccer players at Station Camp High had hoped for a lighted field. The projects at the three schools, which totaled $572000, were requested by the ...
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USD Sports need your support
USD Vista
With the Women's World Cup bringing much excitement to the world of soccer this summer, thesport itself has never been at a higher level in the United States. Stars like Abby Wambach and Alex Morgan shined during the World Cup, but they were not the ...
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Coaches new and old ready to win in NCAC play
The DePauw
And that the men's soccer team is out for vengeance after last year's post season snub. They will learn that a 10-7 record from the women's soccer team is in no way indicative of the talent and skill they actually possess with their youth. ...
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Top-five Stanford, Maryland end in tie
NCAA.com
5 Maryland to a 0-0 draw in a double-overtime nonconference women's soccer match Friday night. Stanford (2-0-1) forced three strong saves from Maryland goalkeeper Yewande Balogun in the first 10 minutes and held the Terrapins without a shot for the...
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NCAA.com
8.27.11 Weekend Preview/Review Combo
Anonymous Eagle
Taylor Madigan got things started in the 7th minute of the 2011 MKE Cup with a header off a Megan Jaskowiak pass and #12/#13 Marquette women's soccer never looked back, taking a 3-0 lead at halftime and finishing with a 5-0 win over Saint Louis. ...
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Sligo keen to bounce back
Irish Times
SOCCER: SLIGO ROVERS manager Paul Cook says Tuesday's EA Sports Cup semi-final defeat on penalties at Derry City hasn't cast a shadow over their season. Having relinquished one of the cups they won last year, Sligo won't want a repeat tonight when ...
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US east coast braced for hurricane
The Press Association
Hurricane Irene could have the final say in The Barclays golf tournament as sport on the east coast of America gets caught up in the appalling weather. Matt Kuchar could be declared the winner if the tournament has to again be shortened to 36 holes as ...
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Nyack Warriors - Women's Soccer Preseason Video - Day 13
Nyack Warriors Athletics - Official Homepage. ... Home Sports Information Resources Camps Sponsors Contact Us ... Warriors News By Email. Enter your email address: Delivered by FeedBurner. Women's Soccer Preseason Video - Day 13. Women's Soccer. Freshman Sarah Tum Suden shares her perspective on the transition from high school/club soccer to our Nyack College Women's Soccer TEAM.....and how she is working hard to adapt to a higher level of soccer....and what she ...
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Weise's Late Goal Lifts Men's Soccer - Georgia State Athletics
Freshman midfielder Jordan Weise scored a goal with 4:43 left to lead the Georgia State men'ssoccer team to a 1-0 victory over Lipscomb Friday afternoon in Nashville, Tenn., in the season opener for both teams. The freshman from Lake Park ...
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REUTERS News, Aug 28, 2011

'Act now' to save global recovery, IMF chief urges
Reuters
... Wyo, Aug 27 (Reuters) - The new head of the IMF on Saturday called on global policymakers to pursue urgent action, including forcing European banks to bulk up their capital, to prevent a descent into a renewed world recession. ...
See all stories on this topic »Emerging economies shouldn't rely on dollar: economist
Reuters
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (Reuters) - Emerging economies should find other ways to buffer themselves from global crises than stockpiling US government debt, a prominent economist argued on Saturday. US Treasuries and the debt of other advanced nations may ...
See all stories on this topic »Liu impresses as top hurdlers ease through
Reuters
By Nick Mulvenney DAEGU, South Korea (Reuters) - China's Liu Xiang looked back to his best after three years of injury misery as he cruised through the opening round of the 110 metres hurdles on Sunday. The 27-year-old former world and Olympic champion ...
See all stories on this topic »Fed and other regulators need policing: economist
Reuters
JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (Reuters) - Global financial regulators are likely to impede growth rather than foster it unless they are better policed, an economist warned policymakers on Saturday. While regulatory reform since the 2007-09 financial crisis has ...
See all stories on this topic »LG Electronics buys local sewage treatment firm
Reuters
SEOUL Aug 28 (Reuters) - LG Electronics Inc.(066570.KS) said on Sunday it bought Daewoo ENTEC, one of South Korea's leading sewage treatment service providers, and is looking at more mergers or acquisitions to become the world's leading water treatment ...
See all stories on this topic »Death of deputy chief deals heavy blow to al Qaeda
Reuters India
By William Maclean LONDON (Reuters) - The killing of al Qaeda's number two leader deprives the group of a multi-talented manager who helped it spawn offshoots around the world and survive a US counter-terrorism campaign in Pakistan, security analysts ...
See all stories on this topic »Global slowdown may not hurt Malaysian commodity exports
Pakistan Daily Times
“There will be some impact, but Malaysian commodities are key to this global market. Without rubber the auto industry cannot move, and the same be said with palm oil for the food sector and tin for manufacturing,” Dompok told Reuters in an interview at ...
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Google's Schmidt sees more partners for Google TV
Reuters
Google has long harbored ambitions to extend its $28 billion online advertising business to the television arena, where the lion's share of global ad budgets is spent. It owns YouTube, the world's most popular online video site, but has not announced ...
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Reuters
German crowned world air guitar champion
YLE News
Newly crowned world air guitar champion Aline Westphal believes that it was time a woman won the championship. Video: Reuters-TV This year's air guitar world champion is Aline 'The Devil's Niece' Westphal, from Germany. She won Friday's championships ...
See all stories on this topic »11 citizen journalist websites ...
The Next Web
Launched in 2006, GroundReport is a platform for citizen journalists around the world to report onglobal events, and users can submit articles, photos or videos of news events which are vetted by its Editors before publication. ...
See all stories on this topic »Argentine auto industry set for output record
Arab News
Argentina exports 60 percent of the vehicles it produces. About 90 percent of foreign sales are made in Brazil, with Mexico a distant second. Argentina ranks as the world's No. 20 automobile producer; Brazil is the fourth-biggest global vehicle-maker. ...
See all stories on this topic »Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual assault case dismissed, appealed
Daily News & Analysis
De Montbrial told Reuters he filed a complaint on Tuesday alleging that an ally of Strauss-Kahn's telephoned one woman and offered her money in exchange for her silence. Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister, could make a dramatic return to ...
See all stories on this topic »Farmland seen holding value as other assets wilt
Montreal Gazette
Investment funds have begun to add farmland to their portfolios in recent years as changing diets and continued global population growth have heightened concerns about security of food supplies and helped drive agricultural commodity prices to record ...
See all stories on this topic »Willis launches nuclear exposure insurance coverage
Montreal Gazette
By Sarah Mortimer, Reuters August 27, 2011 A temporary tide barrier at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Fukushima prefecture, June 30, 2011. LONDON – Reinsurers and their insurance broking colleagues are creating ...
See all stories on this topic »Stocks volatility keeps US forecasters busy
Kuwait Times
The main driver is the hit that confidence is taking because of the market volatility and the belief that the hit to confidence is going to start showing up in real economic data in the next couple of months," said Tom Higgins, global macro strategist ...
See all stories on this topic »Two RUSAL partners seek to sell out
SteelGuru
Reuters reported that 2 partners in the world's top aluminum producer, UC RUSAL want to sell their stake to a third tycoon Mr Alisher Usmanov owner of an iron ore miner and shareholder in Norilsk Nickel. Mr Viktor Vekselberg and Mr Len Blavatnik who ...
See all stories on this topic »Global Showbiz Briefs: Rome, Poland, UK
Deadline.com
Europe's biggest commercial broadcaster RTL Group is interested in ITI Group's $800 million controlling stake in the Polish broadcaster, according to Reuters. And TVN CEO Markus Tellenbach has met with Time Warner reps, Warsaw's Gazeta Wyborcza ...
See all stories on this topic »Nobel 'economists' say Europe will survive crippling debt crisis
Arab Times Kuwait English Daily
It was their first gathering since the global financial crisis broke out in 2008, damaging the discipline's reputation. Across the street from the conference centre, banners hang on the old city wall of Lindau: “The world is not for sale”, ...
See all stories on this topic »Race for resources - China steps up iron ore project in Africa and elsewhere
SteelGuru
Reuters reported that a push by China into iron ore projects in Africa and elsewhere will increase its access to supply and may help moderate prices but will only slowly reduce its dependence on the three companies that dominate the market. ...
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SHUFFLED: Brass shake-up to drive performance in Abu Dhabi
Kipp Report
Abu Dhabi is home to 90 percent of the UAE's oil wealth and analysts polled byReuters in June estimate the UAE economy will expand by 3.7 percent in 2011. The moves follow on from a reshuffle in Abu Dhabi's government in December in which five members ...
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15 Reasons Markets Rallied After Ben Bernanke Spoke and Warren Buffett Bailed ...
Wall St. Cheat Sheet
Libya, a member of OPEC, used to supply the world with 1.6 million barrels of oil per day before breaking out into civil war — nearly 2% of the global oil (NYSE:OIL) supply. 2) Euro bonds. Tempering this morning's gains was news of German Chancellor ...
See all stories on this topic »India's overseas drive to slow home port plans
Business Standard
Graphic on India's infrastructure funding, click link.reuters.com/taw33s New Delhi wants to raise at least 70 billion rupees ($1.5 billion) this fiscal year as initial funding for India Ports Global, Shipping Secretary K. Mohandas told Reuters. ...
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Wallabies clinch Tri-Nations for World Cup boost
Oman Daily Observer
The relevance of the result for next month's global showpiece in New Zealand was downplayed by coaches on both sides. "It's obviously a significant result for us. We haven't done that since 2001 so that's a baggie," Wallabies coach Robbie Deans told...
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