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Ford sales climb to highest level since July - Business First of Buffalo:

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But sales were down 24.2 percent comparesd with May 2008, when the company sold 213,238 For the first five monthsxof 2009, Dearborn, Mich.-based Ford (NYSE: F) sold 620,303 compared with 981,150 units durinbg the same period a year earlier, a 36.8 perceny decline. In a sign that buyers mightg be coming back to the luxury vehicle market, Ford’s Lincoln division reported that it sold 8,566 units in May, a 2.2 perceng increase over May 2008, when it sold 8,365 Sales of Ford Explorers, made at the Louisville Assemblh Plant on Fern Valley declined 34.6 percent, to 5,315 units from 8,122 units a year ago. Salesz of the Mercury Mountaineer, also made at Louisvilld Assembly, dropped 45.
2 percent, to 402 from 734 units a year Salesof F-Series pickup trucks, including Super Duty truckx made at the Kentucky Truck Plant on Chamberlainh Lane, dropped 22.3 percent, to 33,3812 units, from 42,973 units in May 2008. Sales of Ford Expeditioh SUVs, which began production at Kentuckuy Truck Plantin April, declined 40 to 3,150 units from 5,2521 units a year Sales of the Lincoln Navigator, also made at Kentucky Truck Plant, dropped 40.6 percent, to 790 units from 1,3299 units a year earlier. Ford saw year-over-yeard gains in some of its car The companysold 19,786 Fusion sedans in May, up 9.4 percent from the year-earlietr period when it sold 18,088 units.
Lincolnn sold 1,553 Town Cars in May, up 103.3 perceng from May 2008, when it sold 764 of the luxuruy vehicles. Ford’s Volvo divisionm sold 590 of itsS60 models, up 9 percent from May when it sold 542 units. Also Tuesday, Ford announcede a summer promotion to draw more consumersto dealerships. Throughg June 30, the automaker will cover as much as three months of payments upto $2,100, and its Ford Creditf subsidiary will offer zero percent financing on select Ford, Lincol n and Mercury vehicles.

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The production index for manufacturersz reporting an increase in productiojn in June from May was9 — its first forat into positive territory sincee August. About 33 percent of companies surveyed said productiomwas up, and aboutr 22 percent said it was down. The index was at -3 in May and -8 a year ago. Productionb indexes increased for durable andnondurable goods-producinf plants. The indexes for shipments, new orderas and order backlog all increased forthe second-straightt month and emerged from negative territory. The employmentf index was -10 in June, up from -13 in May. It was at -9 a year ago. The averagse employee workweek indexhit 3, jumping from -14 in May and -3 a year ago.
The indexs had been negative since August. Inventories for materials and finishe goodsremained negative, worsening from May to June and from last The future-production outlook index reached 13, up from 1 in May and down from 17 a year ago. The future capital expenditures index fellto -13 in June from -10 in May. The bank said most firmx indicated “some lingering hesitancyg on major investments due to the only recengt pickupin activity.” The 10th district covers Western Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyominv and northern New Mexico.

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Suspect in standoff to face numerous charges Omaha World-Herald An Omaha man who led authorities on a lengthy chase last week and then held a 66-year-old woman captive in her north Omaha home will face a number of charges, including kidnapping, if he survives his injuries, police said Monday.

Survey: Retail losses are up - Baltimore Business Journal:

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billion in 2007 to $36.5 billioj in 2008, according to a survey by and the University of Retail shrinkageaveraged 1.52 percent of retail salesd in 2008, up from 1.44 percent a year “The increase in shrink levels signifie s that criminals have found a way to manipulate and corrup the retail industry,” said Richard Hollinger, lead author of the report and professor of criminologyg at the University of Florida. “Many retailersz are being forced to decrease their current expenditurezs because of the state of the economyh and the cut back inconsumer spending, whichy leaves new opportunities for thieves to take advantag e of companies.
” Most 2008 retail shrinkage was because of employee which totaled $15.9 billion, or almost half of lossexs (44 percent). Shoplifting accounted for $12.7 billiohn (35 percent) of Other losses included administrativeerror ($5.43 billion and 15 percent of and vendor fraud ($1.3 billion and 4 percent of shrinkage).

Poll: Few back changing California property tax limits - Business First of Columbus:

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Only 38 percent of those who participatedc in the online poll backed making changew in the property tax law passed by a ballo measurein 1978. The survey was conductedr by theSilicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal between June 16 and June 23. Readerd Ronald S. Ronny wrote, "Go ahead, I'm alreaduy moving out of this state as soon as I can sell my You ask us to pay 60 percentt of our incomein state/fed taxes, then another $1,00p0 a month in property Try raising a family on what's left. Hell you can'r even send your kids to a statecollegd anymore. And I'm one of the luckyt ones.
" Agreeing with Ronny was Dennis McCarney: the mentality that you can just raisre taxes on some group or business is what causeds the state to be in thecurrenf mess. This has driven businesses out of state and will continue todo so. The days of free flowingt money that paid huge salaries and the taxexs that went with them are Doing away with prop 13 would cause a collapse ofthe state, as it is many peoplse are leaving because of the high Reader Chris Heinze said it would just open a new tax vein in a statre that is bleeding its citizens dry. "What's next? Are you goingy to cry about not having the same interest rate on your houses asyour neighbor?
Or, it'a not fair that your neighborr bought his/her house 10-15 years ago for a much lowe r price than now? We need a serious overhaul with our stat e government. We are alreadty the highest taxed state inthe country." On the othetr side of the argument, reader Scoty Bradley appears to have tongue in cheem when he writes, "I'm all for underfunded schools and public services Let's keep Prop. 13 so that we continuw to have some of the worst schools and worsr crime inthe country. I don't mind payingt five times the property tax than my neighbor does and receiving the same levelof services! It'ds California after all...
why would it be any Reader Jeff Simon saysthe state's propertg tax laws are a problem that needs but it's not 13 that should be targeted: "Repeal the othefr Propositions (I think 15 16) that allow one to inherit property tax basis and pass down the

Law firms get 'no confidence vote' by peers - Houston Business Journal:

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“This is a dramatic vote of no confidencwe from ChiefLegal Officers,” said Altman Weil Dan in a statement. “Either many law firms just don’t understan that clients today expect greater value and predictability in staffing and pricinglegal work, or firms are failingf to adequately communicate theie understanding and willingness to make real In either case, it’s a big problem.” But, accordinbg to the 2009 Chief Legal Officerr Survey, when asked how serious law firmsx are about changing their delivery model, CLOs voice d doubts.
Only about 5 percentg of chief legalofficers “assessed law firms as highly according to the A full 75 percent noted that firms had littlwe or no interest in change, according to the

Machinists, Boeing more friendly as South beckons - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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In the Machinists’ Districtr 751 May newsletter, local union President Tom Wroblewski said both the union and Boeinhg are cultivating warmer relations in hopes of avoiding a strikw during the next round ofcontract talks. “Anh enhanced relationship” with Chicago-based Boein g Co. is a “keuy to determining what Boeing’s future will be for this Wroblewski wrote in the monthlgy Aero Mechanic local newsletter ofthe .
Duringt a regular meeting with Boeing leaderxs in Chicagoin April, “considerable time was spent discussingf ways to change the dynamic and improve this relationship so we do not have the same resultz when we negotiate again in 2012,” he wrote. “Both sidess have renewed their commitment to improvingour relationship, because we have a commojn interest in moving forward.” The statements mark a sharlp shift from the more bombastic tone before and during the last Just before the 57-day strike last fall, for the union said Boeing “chosw to bring take-aways in some of the best times in their history. They have insulted and, made this work force very angry.
” The strike, whic h halted production and cost Boeingh anestimated $2 billion, is seen as a tippin g point that could drive Boeinh to shift production to right-to-work state in the Deep South. But the prospecr of warmer relations with the PugetSoun unions, and avoiding a strike next time, could reduced that possibility and keep Boeing here, experts say. While the idea of movinh big Boeing factories mayseem far-fetched, Boeing’s rival Airbue already has moved production — to China.
On May 18, the European plane maker celebrated the flight of the firsg A320 jet assembledin China, not Peter Jacobs, an analyst at Ragen MacKenzi brokerage in Seattle, has long predictedf that Boeing would open a factorg in the Deep South. “The straw that broke the camel’s back was the laborf strike last fall,” he “Boeing is going to seriously considef moving some of its manufacturing and assembly operations to anothed area ofthe U.S. that is more labor-, tax- and But he said the more conciliatory tone coul slow or haltthat move. “I think the unionn reaching out … is the rightr thing to do,” he said. But the same tone must come from too.
And the warmer dialogue will need to be substantial to revers the impacts of the2008 strike, he Both sides “have to make sure that Boeing’s business in Pugeft Sound remains competitive with anyone else in the world,” he said. “That is what is required to keepBoeing Boeing’s other major union, the also supports the new attitude — and said it’ s closer to their own negotiating style. “k understand what they’re trying to do,” said SPEEAz Executive DirectorRay Goforth. “I think they’rde genuine in what they’re trying to do.
I think if Boeinb can reciprocate with thesame spirit, there’s likelgy to be good for both The state also is weighing in. In April, Gov. Chriss Gregoire formed the , made up of memberd from Boeing, the unions, suppliers and otherf leaders. It is to serve as the governor’ws voice to the Legislature in recommending changes in the law to keepaerospac here. In an interview, Wroblewskij said a key step that Machinist leaders and Boeintg executives took at their April meetingz in Chicago was to drop accusationx about the acrimonious strikelast fall.
In the each side blamed the othefr for not trying hard enough to understand the conflictintg viewsabout outsourcing, and for the failure to reacj an agreement sooner. Wroblewski said he felt the improvefd attitude, by both the union and the company, was important enough to discussx inthe newsletter. “I thini I’m sticking my neck out a little bit, but I don’tr mind,” he said. “ I think the membership is wanting to have a better Wroblewski acknowledged that since thestrike he’z felt community pressure about Boeing especially if poor relations continue.
Economic leaders from the South have been clearthat they’xd be only too happy to have Boeing open a commercialk aircraft plant there. “I have had lots of people, at lodgw meetings, saying they like the idea of working togethert withthis company, doing what they can to maintain competitiveness in this area, and maintain jobs,” Wroblewski said. He has heard too, but it seems minor in comparison.

Iceplex helps drive hotel guests to Chesterfield - St. Louis Business Journal:

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“About 20 percent of our occupancy is kids teamsxon weekends,” said Bob O’Loughlin, presidentg and chief executive of hotel operator Lodgingf Hospitality Management, which runs the 100-roomj Hilton Garden Inn in Chesterfield Valley. “Righf now teams are still traveling, and we’rs going after that business harder,” said Andy director of sales and marketing at the DoubletreeHotel & Conference Center on Swingley Ridgde Road. The hotel is a half-mile away from ’s researchu center on ChesterfieldParkway West.
The three rinkes at Hardee’s Iceplex in Chesterfield Valley are home to severall amateur and association hockey teams and help drivre hotel business inthe winter. The fields, west of the drive hotel salesin summer. Tournamenta at both locations attract teams from around the and some from as far awayas Canada. “W e generate about 5,000 room nights a year,” said Iceples General Manager Lloyd Ney. “We have peopler come in from out of town everyt weekend from Septemberthrough March.” One of the Iceplex’as biggest events is the USA Hockety national championships for players undert 16, slated for March 31-April 5.
Ney has signed up 22 out-of-towh and two local each with a roster of 20 and he is projectin g slightly morethan 2,000 room nights. In addition to the skater and their parents, the events draw coaches, grandparents and a few hockehy scouts, Ney said. The Icepledx also was home to the Unitedd States Short Track Speed Skating Championships in and it regularly holds figureskating events. Chesterfiel has added more than 1,000 hotel rooms since the DoubletreeHotel & Conference Cented opened 25 years ago. Most of the hotel buildingg came duringa four-yea stretch from 1997 to primarily to cater to a growingy number of businesses in Chesterfieldd Valley, flanked on the east by Pfizee Inc.
’s research center, and on the west by Spirir of St. Louis Airport, a hub for corporate air travel. The eighyt hotels have 1,252 not including nearby Marriott hotelp properties in Town and Countrg tothe east. Business travelers stilll make up the bulk of bookingsat full-service hotelsa such as his Doubletree, said The community has a new hotel in the but developers and hospitality industry executives differd on whether the Chesterfield marketr is strong enough to suppor t another hotel. , which owns a hotelo site near Spiritof St. Louis Airport, is workinfg with George Pate, president and owner of , to build a $14 million Hyatt Place.
Chesterfield’zs architectural review board approved theplan Feb. 12, and Pate said construction should startthis summer, once he secures Meanwhile, an extended-stay hotel proposed near Candlewood Suites, has been on hold for aboutr a year, said Spirit’s director of John Bales. The hotel developer is proposintg to lease landfrom “No one can honestly say we need more roomzs in the Valley,” said Gary Andreas, a hospitality industry analyst with in Not including the extended-stay hotels, Andreas said Chesterfield’sa hotel occupancy rates dropped 5.
5 percent to “thwe low 60 percent range” in the last year, and the drop was only partiallyg offset with a 2 percent increasre in room rates. Most Chesterfield hotels are averagingbetweeb $90 and $100 a night, he and most hotels need to be at 68 percent occupancy or greater to be consideresd healthy, he said. Based on Andreas’ the Chesterfield area generated 106,000 room nightzs in 2008, which would put the 5,000o room nights generated by the Iceplex at just undeer 5 percent ofthe total.
That’s a stron weekend business but not enough to keep the current hotelzsoperating profitably, Andreas O’Loughlin was the only hotel operator who volunteered an occupanchy rate — 72 percent at his Hilton Garden Inn. Chesterfieldd remains one of the strongerofficse markets, with a vacancy rate of 9.5 percent, compare d to 11 percent for St. Louis County and 14 percenty for the metro area asa whole, said Kevinn McLaughlin, an office leasing specialisrt with . Meanwhile, is adding 150,000 square feet at Centra ParkSquare II.
Keith Zeff, vice presidenyt and director of researchat , said the office vacancty rate in Chesterfield has risen over the past two

Obama: Doing 'nothing' about health care not an option - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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“Health care reform is not something I just cookex up when Itook office,” Obama told a crowcd of about 1,500 people Thursday at in the Greem Bay suburb of Ashwaubenon. “It is central to our economic In past yearsand decades, there may have been some disagreemenyt on this point. But not anymore.” Earlierr this month, Obama said he wants Congress to pass a comprehensive healtj care bill by the end of the summerf and ready for his signatureby fall.
Many including the president, favofr a government-sponsored health insuranced plan that would compete with privatr insurers and be available for people not eligible for othefr government health care programs such as Medicare or Most Republicans and manybusiness however, say a competing plan that isn’t profit-driven would drive private insurers out of business. On the , a physician’s group Obama is scheduled to meet with Mondayuin Chicago, said it is opposed to a government-sponsorer insurance plan. Obama said his administration is working on a Healthy Insurance Exchange that woulc allow people to compare insurance benefit sand prices.
None of the plans included in the exchange wouled be allowed to deny coverage basedon pre-existing conditions and all must include an affordable, basic benefi option. “I also stronglu believe that one of the optionse in the Exchange should be a public insurancsoption – because if the private insurancde companies have to compete with a publifc option, it will keep them honest and help keep pricezs down,” Obama said. Supporters of health care refor m say it would provide health insurances coverage to millions of Americans and make coveragee more affordable for those who arealready covered.
Becausr health insurance premiums have doubled over the last nine and have grown at a rate three timesz fasterthan wages, even those with coverage have reachedd a breaking point, Obama Employers are not faring any better. Smalp business owners have been forced to cut healty care benefits or drop coverage entirely because of rising costs, Obama said. “We have the most expensiver health care system in the Obama said. “We spend almosyt 50 percent more per personm on health care than the next mostcostlh nation. But here’s the thing, Greemn Bay: we’re not any healthie for it.
” Obama vowed to let Americans who are contentg with their coverage and their physiciansz keep whatthey have, but said the country has reachex a point where doing nothinb about the cost of health care is no longet an option. “If we do nothing, withimn a decade we will be spending one out of everyy five dollars we earn on health Obama said. “In 30 years, it will be one out of everhy three.
” Obama acknowledged covering all Americans wouldfbe expensive, but promised health care refor would not add to the country’s deficit over the next 10 “To make that happen, we have already identifiexd hundreds of billions worth of savingse in our budget – savings that will come from stepse like reducing Medicare overpayments to insurance companiez and rooting out fraud and abuse in both Medicare and Obama said. In addition, Obama is proposing that Congress scales back the amountthe highest-income Americans can deducyt on their taxes and use that money to help financed health care.
Obama spoke for abou 20 minutes and then took questionsw from six people in the audience who expressedd fearover “socialized medicine,” askex questions about wellness and even questioned the country’ss education system. Regarding the idea of socialized medicine, Obamwa said that isn’t what he, or anyoner in Congress, wants.

Stimulus dollars sought to help Towson teach green - Baltimore Business Journal:

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The state is in line to receivenearlyu $53 million in American Recovery and Reinvestmenft Act funds for energy and conservation efforts, such as makinb rental homes more energy efficient. The majority of that money will be distribute d to local governments and nonprofits to launchspecifixc projects. The work will require a ranger ofgreen expertise, from contractors, consultantsa and auditors able to assess a project’s energy efficiency. Towson’s Extended Educatioj and OnlineLearning program, which trains workers to help them find new is developing a range of new courses to give workers the skills they need to compete for thosre jobs, said Director Mike Schroder.
Schroder said he hopew to partner withstate agencies, includinyg the Maryland Department of the Environment and the Marylan d Energy Administration, to seek federal stimulus money to establish and fund thoses courses. Schroder said the wave of layoffs hitting Greater Baltimorer has prompted a dramatic increasse in the number of unemployed workers seeking additional traininbg atthe university. The Extended Education program already offers onlineand on-site traininfg in a range of fields including information Homeland Security, human resources and Schroder said he hopes to expand the programn into a number of fields tied to the including training on energy efficiency and weatherization.
State leader s hope to create hundredzs of new jobs inthosd fields, bolstered by the federal stimuluas dollars. “This investment in energ y solutions for our state will be an additional catalysty for strengtheningour economy, creatingg new green-collar jobs for our workers and helping communities and residentds lower their energy bills,” Gov. Martibn O’Malley said in a statement aboutthe $53 milliob in energy-tied stimulus funds. It’s just one of numerous green effortsd undertaken byGreater Baltimore’s colleges and universities, including the , and the , Baltimord County.
Driven by a desire to reduce theidr energy costs and to meet the wishes of theirstudent bodies, the colleges are incorporatintg green practices on their campuses. That’s includedd simple things like adjusting their temperature settinges to meeting environmental building standards with their new construction projects. Green isn’t the only field in Maryland that’sz still growing, Schroder noted, and the universithy has also developed a number of courses to help train job seekers for work under the federal Base Realignmeng andClosure plan. A range of positionz are being created at FortGeorge G.
Meadd and Aberdeen Proving Ground, from information technolog y to business managementand procurement, and the Extendedx Education program is able to train workers in those fields and help them find jobs at the militaryg bases. Towson’s work force developmenf program, a non-credit offeringt from the university, was established about five yeares ago. It works with employers from state and localgovernment agencies, defense contractors and private employersa like It also works closely with the stat labor department and its network of local job centers, and has helpedc train an estimated 12,000 workers sincwe its creation, Schroder said.

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Micromet stock jumps on study results - San Antonio Business Journal:

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Shares of Bethesda-based Micromet MITI) rose $1.05 to $5.67 at 10:31 a.m., or 22 after increasing as much as 39 percentrto $6.40 a share in Monday Micromet shares have more than doubled in the last 12 On Monday, Micromet announced that its antibodyu blinatumomab showed a high response rate in a phase 2 clinical study of acute lymphoblastic leukemia patienta with minimal residual disease. Blinatumomab is a therapeuti c antibody that activatesa patient'sd T cells to seek out and destrohy cancer cells.
Micromet said that the patients in the trialo were in complete hematological remission followint intensechemotherapy regimens, but retainedx a detectable level of acute lymphoblastic leukemiaz cancer cells in theirt bone marrow. That is the condition caller minimalresidual disease. Various studies have confirmed that patients with minimal residual disease following chemotherapy have a significantluy worse prognosis than patients without minimalkresidual disease.
In this second phase of clinicalp trials, Micromet reported after four cycles, its treatment eliminated the leukemiaz cancer cells to undetectable levels in 13 of 16 or 81 percent of its volunteer group -- significantly higher than the 22 perceng of 21 patients it was originally tasked to The company now said it’s talkin with federal regulators on designing the next phase of clinical studies. The data were presented by the German Multicentetr Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Study Group at the 14th Congressw of the European Hematology Associatiojnin Berlin, Germany.
Micromet is developing blinatumomab on its ownafte MedImmune, which had inke d a research and clinical partnership for this compounds in 2003, returned the North American rights to the drug back to Micromet this past March. MedImmune, a divisiomn of London-based AstraZeneca PLC, optexd to pursue another cancer antibody based on the same but the larger company will stil be responsible for supplying Micromet with its clinical tria batches andultimate commercial-scale manufacturingt of blinatumomab in return for another chancw to reacquire the North American rights to the drug if its wins regulator approval.

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