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Courtesy photo - Sharon Grundy Murphy Financial announces new business manager
RENO –– Murphy Business and Financial, a northern Nevada business brokerage firm, announced this week the addition of Sharon G. Grundy as business manager. Grundy brings with her more than 20 ye...
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Courtesy photo - Michelle Scott Reno resident named Country Financial representative
SPARKS –– Michelle Scott of Reno has been named a financial representative for country Financial. Scott recently completed the organization’s extensive training about the solutions Country offer...
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American companies boost productivity, put off hiring
WASHINGTON — Employers are managing to boost production without creating new jobs. The question is when they’ll feel the need to ramp up hiring. Squeezing more output from their existing s...
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Ann Rhoades teaches how to build a strong service culture
At this month’s Western Industrial Nevada ( WIN ) breakfast, Ann Rhoades will share her insights about improving a company’s bottom line by developing great internal and external customer service.
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national business news
GUANGZHOU, China (AP) -- Factory worker Chen Qinghai frowned as he looked at a tall bulletin board full of help-wanted notices from companies making everything from photocopiers and DVD drives to mobile phones and car parts....
By WILLIAM FOREMAN
Sat Mar 13 10:11:44 -0600 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ....
By ALAN FRAM
Sat Mar 13 17:31:05 -0600 2010
BEIJING (AP) -- China closed its annual legislative session Sunday by approving a budget that extends job-creation and welfare programs as Beijing tries to deal with a rapidly expanding rich-poor gap at the root of many of its social stability problems....
By CHARLES HUTZLER
Sat Mar 13 20:43:09 -0600 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Newly arrived Republican Sen. Scott Brown of Massachusetts accused President Barack Obama and Democrats on Saturday of a "bitter, destructive and endless" drive to pass health overhaul legislation that Brown warned would be disastrous....
By ERICA WERNER
Sat Mar 13 20:35:40 -0600 2010
BEIJING (AP) -- China plans to bid for contracts to build U.S. high-speed train lines and is stepping up exports of rail technology to Europe and Latin America, a government official said Saturday....
By JOE McDONALD
Sat Mar 13 06:40:06 -0600 2010