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...first task was to make sure that we carefully understood how the technology would be made available to different industries and how it delivers benefit in different applications,” said Stephen D. Saylor, the chief executive of SiOnyx, the start-up venture created to commercialize the innovation. “That was what the company was doing for the last year and a half...
...Retrenchment Some financial firms that do have slots to fill this fall will cut back on the number of schools they visit. Rather than covering all corners of the country, some firms are focusing on a smaller core group of schools. That may hurt schools further afield that ordinarily benefit from companies casting a wide net. •Heightened Competition As the financial recruiting process slows, students who had planned on working in finance are competing more aggressively for consulting and other positions...
...that the credit crunch is rolling full-tilt into the real economy, even credit unions with the benefit of geography likely won't be able to escape the effects of recession. At the 66,000-member Unitus Community Credit Union in Portland, Ore., loan volume is up this year in nearly every category - 32% in mortgages, 37% in student loans, 12% in credit cards - but so are delinquencies. Since the beginning of the year, late payments have increased from...
Childers is outpolling and outspending Davis, and Childers will benefit from an estimated 100,000-plus new Democratic registrations in Mississippi, many of them African Americans inspired by Barack Obama. And the collapse of the GOP brand--a party leader has said that if House Republicans were a dog food, they'd be pulled off the shelves--has gotten Childers some second looks from fed-up voters. Jim Lyons, a Republican whose trucking business is on the brink of failure, said after meeting Childers at a diner in tiny Mathiston that he's done with straight-ticket voting. "People...
...valid," says Jorge Pinon, an energy fellow at the University of Miami and an expert on Cuba's oil business. "I think they're feeling a lot of pressure right now to accelerate the development of their own oil resources." Benjamin-Alvarado gives Cuba's geologists more benefit of the doubt; but he calls the 20-billion-bbl. estimate "off the charts." "I trust them as oil people, and their seismic readings might be right," he says, "but until we see secondary, outside analysis, this is going to be suspect...