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 Boston.com | RI agency vice chair resigns amid Schilling mess Boston.com The vice chairwoman of Rhode Island's economic development agency board resigned Thursday, becoming the second official on the panel to step down as the state grapples with the future of former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling's troubled video gaming ... Second Rhode Island official resigns amid Curt Schilling mess |
 Christian Science Monitor | GSA administrator behind Las Vegas conference no longer with agency Christian Science Monitor He is no longer with the agency, sources confirmed. The General Services Administration executive who was responsible for a lavish, $823000 conference in Las Vegas is no longer with theGSA, the agency confirmed Thursday. GSA spokesman Adam Elkington ... Jeffrey Neely, who organized lavish GSA conference, leaves agency Man behind GSA's lavish Las Vegas conference gone from federal agency GSA official at heart of conference scandal leaves agency |
 msnbc.com | Obama taps Yucca Mtn critic to lead nuclear agency Fox News WASHINGTON ? Moving quickly to stem a controversy, President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated an expert on nuclear waste to lead the federal agency that regulates the nation's nuclear power plants. Allison Macfarlane, who served on a presidential ... Obama names Yucca critic Allison Macfarlane to lead nuclear agency |
Panel examining flaws in food-for-troops contract BusinessWeek The Defense Logistics Agency, which supervises the food supply contract, is demanding that Supreme Foodservice of Ziegelbrucke, Switzerland, return more than $750 million in overpayments made by the government. But the company has refused, ... |
 INAUTONEWS | Chrysler, agency win awards for ad Detroit Free Press By Brent Snavely Chrysler and its advertising agency, Wieden+Kennedy, were the Grand Effie award winners Wednesday in New York City for the company's "Imported from Detroit" Super Bowl commercial in 2011. While most of the finalists for the award were ... Ogilvy & Mather Wins 18 Effie Awards, Ranked Most Effective Agency in North ... |
Ratings agency downgrades Ford debt Detroit Free Press By Alisa Priddle The ratings agency that granted its highest ratings to billions of dollars of risky mortgage-backed securities is downgrading $9.3 billion of Ford's unsecured debt. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said Thursday it has downgraded the ... |
Agency CIOs coveted new Digital, Shared Services strategies FederalNewsRadio.com By Jason Miller The Office of Management and Budget now has released two major strategies in the past month, giving agency chief information officers a host of new deadlines. But a funny thing happened on the way to developing the goals: the CIOs asked ... |
 Bleacher Report | Free Agency and Future of the Franchise Will Dominate Coyotes Offseason Bleacher Report Like the 29 other teams, free agency will receive a great deal of attention. Unlike the remaining 29 teams, the dark cloud of ownership needs to be settled. The ownership issue is critical, Maloney said at this press briefing Thursday morning. |
 GlobeSt.com | Ireland's 'Bad Bank' Agency Faces Considerable Challenges-Auditor Wall Street Journal DUBLIN (Dow Jones)--Ireland's so-called "bad bank"--the National Asset Management Agency--faces "considerable challenges" in breaking even on the 32 billion euros in impaired commercial property loans it bought from the nation's banks, the government's ... Ireland Agency To Invest $5B in Loans, Construction Irish Bad Bank to Invest 2 Billion Euros, Pay Down Debt A welcome stimulus |
Weber Shandwick Named Global Public Relations Agency by Tokyo 2020 Olympic Bid ... MarketWatch (press release) NEW YORK, May 25, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Tokyo 2020, a Bid Committee for Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games, confirmed Weber Shandwick as its global public relations agency to support its overall communications strategy. |