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FedEx CEO Saved the Company Playing Blackjack
2014-03-18 18:50:40| Air Courier - Topix.net
NEW YORK It's not everyday you hear about a Fortune 500 company being saved in Las Vegas, but then again, FedEx In a post to Quora , Marc Bodnick, Co-Founder of Elevation Partners , noted that FedEx CEO Fred Smith actually saved the fledgling company at a time when it was near bankruptcy, and kept it afloat by playing -- what else -- blackjack.
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04.25: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail
2014-03-18 02:35:19| Powells Books Events Calendar
Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio town with a change of clothes and less than 200 dollars. The next anybody heard from her, this farm-reared, 67-year-old great-grandmother had walked 800 miles along the Appalachian Trail, later becoming the first woman to hike the entire trail alone. Ben Montgomery's Grandma Gatewood's Walk (Chicago Review Press) is her compelling story — one of triumph, illustrating the full power of human spirit and determination.
CEI to Show How Truck Fleets Have Saved Time and Money At ATA Exhibition
2014-03-10 01:05:48| AutomotiveDigest.com - Automotive Industry News
Case studies showing how truck fleets have saved time and money by outsourcing their accident management activities will be the focal point of The CEI Group's message this week at ATA's Technology & Maintenance Council Exhibition. CEI will be one of the exhibitors at 2014 Annual Meeting & Transportation Technology Exhibition, hosted by the American Trucking Association's Technology and Maintenance Council (TMC). The gathering will be held at the Music City Center in Nashville, Tennessee March 10 -13. READ MOREThe Article CEI to Show How Truck Fleets Have Saved Time and Money At ATA Exhibition appeared first on Automotive Digest.
United Kingdom: Can our trees be saved from big timber, rampant disease and global warming?
2014-03-09 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: We have finally finished tidying up all the trees and branches thrown down by the furious winter winds in Court Wood. It's an 11-acre, mixed broad-leaf woodland near my home in the Black Mountains, south Wales. As part of a not-for-profit, community woodland group, I started managing the wood a few months ago. Before our small team of volunteers arrived with billhooks and chainsaws, Court Wood hadn't been touched for 60 years. Like thousands of similarly anonymous British woodlands, it had silently...
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Questions whether Norways billions have saved any tropical rainforest
2014-03-07 09:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Development Today: Having monitored global REDD initiatives since 2008, writer and environmental activist Chris Lang questions whether Norways aid-financed climate forest initiative - the largest in the world - has contributed to reducing rates of deforestation. In an opinion article in this issue of Development Today, Lang cites new research from the University of Maryland, showing that deforestation in Indonesia is on the rise. There are a number of tentative signs of progress, but with the exception of a new...
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