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There was little indication that the Texas facility that had a massive explosion on Thursday posed a danger to the community, according to evaluations by oversight groups.
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Gov. Rick Perry, (R-TX), explains how his state is building an educated workforce.
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Gov. Rick Perry, (R-TX), discusses how the "Lone Star State" is growing jobs by keeping taxes low; making the regulatory climate fair and predictable; and implementing sweeping tort reform.
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Every day, about 10 Kansas City Southern trains hauling everything from cars to chemicals crisscross the border between Mexico and the United States at Laredo, Texas, up from about six three years ago.
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Every day, about 10 Kansas City Southern trains hauling everything from cars to chemicals crisscross the border between Mexico and the United States at Laredo, Texas, up from about six just three years ago.
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HOUSTON, Dec 3- One of two workers exposed to a hazardous chemical at Valero Energy Corp's Tennessee refinery early on Monday has died, the company said. Both were hurt when a small window on a unit ruptured at the 180,000 barrels-per-day Memphis refinery, spokesman Bill Day said. Memphis Fire Department spokesman Lt.
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*Ford US sales up 6.5 pct, Chrysler up 14 pct, Toyota up 17 pct. "Vehicle sales are one of the encouraging spots of our economy," said Gary Bradshaw, portfolio manager with Hodges Capital Management in Dallas.
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SYDNEY/ JERUSALEM, Dec 3- Australia's Woodside Petroleum said it would buy a 30 percent stake in Israel's Leviathan natural gas field, dealing a blow to Gazprom's ambitions to cement its position as Europe's dominant supplier and expand in the liquefied natural gas market.
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"Vehicle sales are one of the encouraging spots of our economy," said Gary Bradshaw, portfolio manager with Hodges Capital Management in Dallas.
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*Shares of both Dean Foods and Saputo rise. Dec 3- Saputo Inc will buy Dean Foods Co's Morningstar division for $1.45 billion to widen its product range and increase its U.S. presence, the Canadian dairy products maker said on Monday.
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SYDNEY/ JERUSALEM, Dec 3- Australia's Woodside Petroleum said it would buy a 30 percent stake in Israel's Leviathan natural gas field, dealing a blow to Gazprom's ambitions to cement its position as Europe's dominant supplier and expand in the liquefied natural gas market.
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SYDNEY/ JERUSALEM, Dec 3- Australia's Woodside Petroleum Ltd has agreed to buy a 30 percent stake in Israel's huge Leviathan natural gas field in a deal that could be worth as much as $2.5 billion.
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*Port strike at Los Angeles and Long Beach enters sixth day. Dec 2- A national coalition of U.S. business groups is urging an end to a strike at the twin California ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach amid fears that a prolonged stand-off will cost the American economy many billions of dollars, and could even spread to the east coast.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 30- Chevron Corp received a boost to its efforts to restart oil output in Brazil after a court overturned a ban on its operating in the country and the company agreed on a plan to improve safety procedures after an oil spill last year.
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Once found in abundant numbers across much of Southeastern Colorado, Eastern New Mexico, the Texas Panhandle, Western Oklahoma and Western Kansas, the lesser prairie-chicken's historical range of native grasslands and prairies has been reduced by an estimated 84 percent, the service said.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 30- Chevron Corp's efforts to restart oil output in Brazil received a boost after a court overturned a ban on operations and the company agreed with prosecutors on a plan to improve safety and operating procedures after a November 2011 oil spill.
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Since 1980, hard-pressed mayors, county executives and other leaders among some 90,0000 local governments across America have filed just 274 Chapter 9 cases, according to James Spiotto, partner at Chapman and Cutler LLP in Chicago.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 30- Lockheed Martin Corp and the U.S. Defense Department have reached an agreement in principle on a fifth batch of 32 additional F-35 fighter planes, the Pentagon said on Friday, bringing nearly a year of negotiations to a close.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 30- A bill to create a permanent visa program for foreigners with advanced science and technical degrees cleared the House of Representatives on Friday, the latest salvo in the broader fight over U.S. immigration reform. Broadly, both parties agree on the benefits of helping science and technology experts stay in the United States.
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NEW YORK, Nov 30- Hedge fund Kleinheinz Capital Partners, which has roughly $2 billion in assets, told investors on Friday that it is shutting down. "After over 20 years of managing hedge fund partnerships and nearly 17 years since I started this firm, I have decided to return our investors' capital," John Kleinheinz said in a letter dated Nov. 30.
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WASHINGTON, Nov 30- A bill to create a permanent visa program for foreigners with advanced science and technical degrees cleared the House of Representatives on Friday, the latest salvo in the broader fight over U.S. immigration reform.