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Smucker to Acquire Big Heart Pet Brands
2015-02-04 19:15:00| Food Processing
$5.8 billion for former Del Monte pet brands, including Gravy Train and Meow Mix.
General Motors 2014 profit falls 26 pct. to $2.8B, would have had big year without recalls
2015-02-04 16:27:20| Automakers - Topix.net
Even with $2.8 billion in pretax costs to fix more than 30 million recalled vehicles and $400 million set aside for death and injury claims, GM still managed to turn a $2.8 billion profit. That's because otherwise, most of the stars lined up well for the Detroit automaker.
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As climate changes, cities grapple w/ big rains
2015-02-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Minnesota Public Radio: In Duluth, city workers have replaced 8-foot culverts wiped out in a 2012 storm with two sections 10 feet wide, more than doubling their capacity. In Minnetonka, the city is creating computer models to see where increased rainfall is putting the most pressure on its stormwater system. In north Minneapolis, a street has been torn out to make room for huge tanks that can store stormwater and prevent it from overwhelming the city's system that drains into the Mississippi River. In all three...
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Farmers adapt to big rains but send trouble downstream
2015-02-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Minnesota Public Radio: As rains have gotten heavier, Minnesota farmers in recent years have been expanding a 150-year-old drainage system, pulling billions of gallons more water off soggy land and letting the state's corn and soybean fields thrive. They have laid thousands of additional miles of water-absorbing plastic tubes underneath their fields and, as a result, they have pushed upward the number of bushels per acre of the crops that dominate Minnesota's agricultural landscape. They have held their own and even flourished...
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January 2015 Auto Sales: Big Trucks and CUVs Rule
2015-02-04 03:46:20| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
It was a great month for auto sales, in part because we compare year-over-year increases. January 2015 is compared with January 2014, and last year, consistently heavier snowfalls and colder weather kept customers off dealer lots.
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